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Clifden, n. Ent.|ˈklɪfdən|
Also † Cleifden.
[A former spelling of the name of Cliveden, a village in Buckinghamshire, where the moth was first observed.]
Clifden nonpareil |ˈnɒnpərel|, a large Eurasian noctuid moth, Catocala fraxini, with grey forewings and a bluish band across each black hindwing.
1749B. Wilkes Eng. Moths & Butterflies 45 The Cleifden Nonpareil, a Moth. This curious Fly was found by Mr Davenport, sticking against the Body of an Ash Tree, near Cleifden, in Buckinghamshire. 1766M. Harris Aurelian 65 (heading) The Clifden Nonpareile. 1863J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) III. 539 The caterpillar of the Clifden Nonpareil is very scarce in this country, and when found is almost invariably in one of the southern counties. 1913W. F. Kirby Butterflies & Moths, in Romance & Reality 125 The largest species [of Catocalidae], the Clifden Nonpareil..is widely distributed in Britain, but is always very scarce. 1937P. B. M. Allan Moth-hunter's Gossip iii. 84, I verily believe that the sight of a Clifden Nonpareil flying round my bedroom would make me leap from my death-bed. 1955E. B. Ford Moths x. 147 The Clifden Nonpareil has recently become abundant in Denmark. 1984B. Skinner Colour Identification Guide Moths Brit. Isles 151/2 Clifden Nonpareil,..resident in aspen woodland near Hamstreet, Kent, from 1935 to 1964, and in the Norfolk Broads from the early to mid 1930s. |