Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Shining Underwing (Catocala luciana) is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in western North America, as far east as Minnesota and Illinois and northward into extreme southern Alberta and Saskatchewan. It occurs widely across the Great Plains, south to New Mexico, Arizona and California.The wingspan is 63-68 mm. Adults are on wing from August to October depending on the location.A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth (about ten times the number of species of butterfly), with thousands of species yet to be described.