Herald (moth)

The herald
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Scoliopteryginae
Genus: Scoliopteryx
Species:
S. libatrix
Binomial name
Scoliopteryx libatrix
Synonyms
  • Phalaena libatrix Linnaeus, 1758
  • Bombyx libatricus Haworth, 1803

The herald (Scoliopteryx libatrix) is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is found throughout the Palearctic and Nearctic (Holarctic).