Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Lithophane atara is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in British Columbia, Manitoba and western Ontario.The length of the forewings is about 18 20 mm. Adults are on wing from August to September. The larvae feed on Lodgepole pine and Ponderosa pine.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.