About Acronicta alni (Linnaeus, 1767)
Acronicta alni, commonly called the alder moth, is a moth species that belongs to the family Noctuidae. Its known distribution covers Europe, ranging from southern Fennoscandia to Spain, Italy, and the Balkans. It is also found in Turkey, the European portion of Russia and its adjacent neighboring countries, the Caucasus, the Ural, southern Siberia, Transbaikalia, and the Russian Far East, which includes Primorye, Sakhalin, the southern Kuriles, Khabarovsk, and the Amur region. Additional areas where this species occurs are China, Japan (specifically Hokkaido and Honshu), and the Korean Peninsula.