"silver Y" meaning in English

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          "name": "Noctuoid moths",
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          "ref": "1992, BBC Wildlife, volume 11, page 69",
          "text": "The differences between the silver-y moth and its two newly described siblings – Autographa messmeri and A. voelkeri – are rather less obvious.",
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          "ref": "2015, Norman Maclean, A Less Green and Pleasant Land, page 223",
          "text": "There are a few day-flying exceptions such as hummingbird hawk-moths, silver Ys, cinnabars, scarlet tigers and burnets but, in general, knowledge of moths lags behind that of butterflies.",
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          "ref": "2016 July 11, Patrick Barkham, The Guardian",
          "text": "Ronaldo’s moth was one of thousands of Silver Y moths, a migratory species that moves north through Europe each summer in search of new breeding grounds, returning south in the autumn.",
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          "word": "Y-moth"
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          "code": "da",
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          "sense": "Autographa gamma",
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          "word": "gammaugle"
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "Autographa gamma",
          "word": "gammayökkönen"
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          "sense": "Autographa gamma",
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          "word": "gammafly"
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    {
      "word": "Y-moth"
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      "word": "silver-y"
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