1819 G. Samouelle 420 (table) Noctua... literosa... The rosy Minor.
1843 H. N. Humphreys & J. O. Westwood I. 179 Miana literosa (the rosy minor). Miana strigilis (the marbled minor).
1907 (Royal Bot. Gardens, Kew) 163 Miana literosa, Haw. ‘The Rosy Minor’. Local, but widely distributed in Britain, Europe, and C. Asia.
1985 44 224/2 The rosy minor moth Miana literosa was extinct for many years in the industrial Sheffield area of England.