Zanclognatha lunalis (Scopoli, 1763)

Host plants:
The larvae usually feed on dead leaves and other detritus. I could beat them in numbers from dead but leaved Castanea sativa twigs on the soil in a quite humid forest incision in Belasitsa mountains in Bulgaria.

Habitat:
Zanclognatha lunalis usually inhabits warm, often humid, but sometimes also dry woodlands with good layer of dead leaves in the lowlands and lower mountains. It also occurs in rocky woodlands, but rocks are not essential. More important seems a mosaic of dense and open woodland parts.

Life cycle:
The larva hibernates. The moths occur in most often only one and sometimes two generations between about late May and August or September (most often in June/July).

Endangerment factors:
Zanclognatha lunalis occurs locally in Europe and temperate Asia to Japan.