Craniophora praeclara is a moth of the family Noctuidae. Its distribution includes North Korea, Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu), China (Guizhou (including Fanjingshan), Heilongjiang, Jilin), and the Russian Far East (Lower and Middle Amur, Primorye, Sakhalin, South Kuril Islands).
The species is called ãÂÂãÂÂã³ã¦ã±ã³ã¢ã³ in Japanese, ðì¥ÂëÂ¥ëÂÂ무ì Âë ÂëÂÂë°© (automated translation: wood pellets evening large moth) in Korean, and éÂÂé¦Âå¤Âè¾ (automated translation: Feng first armyworm) in China.
Its wingspan is 38âÂÂ45 mm. They emerge as adults between June and September in Japan.
Graeser's 1890 description described a complex mix of colorations and markings on the wings, a purplish grey head and thorax mixed with fuscous, and a whiteish abdomen "irrorated with fuscous and dorsally tinged with brown towards base, the crests blackish."