Orange-spot Piercer

Pammene aurana has a wingspan of 9–13 mm. These moths show chocolate brown or reddish brown forewings with yellow-orange blotches. They usually have two almost round yellow-orange spots before the wing's outer edge and a large round or semicircular yellow-orange marking in the middle at the wing's rear edge. The fringes are dark brown. The hind wings are dark. Head, thorax, abdomen and antennae are brown to dark brown. In the form Pammene aurana var. aurantiana the various yellow-orange markings flow together and only the wing base, the costa and the outer edge are brown. The caterpillars are whitish with a shiny black-brown head. They can reach a length of about 5 millimetres (0.20 in).

This species can be found in most of Europe and the Palearctic. To the east, the distribution extends over southern Siberia, the Alatau to the region Primorsky Krai in the Far East.