''Eudonia murana'', the Scotch gray or wall grey, is a

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

of the family

Crambidae The Crambidae are the grass moth family of lepidopterans. They are variable in appearance, the nominal subfamily Crambinae (grass moths) taking up closely folded postures on grass stems where they are inconspicuous, while other subfamilies includ ...

. It was described by John Curtis in 1827 and is found in most of Europe. The

wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan o ...

is 18–23 mm. Adults are on wing from June to August, possibly in two generations. The larvae feed on various mosses growing on rocks and walls, including '' Hypnum cupressiformis'', ''

Dicranum scoparium ''Dicranum scoparium'', the broom forkmoss, is a species of dicranid moss, native to most of the northern hemisphere as well as Oceania Oceania (, , ) is a geographical region that includes Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Po ...

'', '' Bryum capillare'' and '' Grimmia pulvinata''.

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murana Moths of Europe Moths described in 1827 {{Scopariinae-stub