Autumnal rustic
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Noctuidae |
Genus: | Eugnorisma |
Species: | E. glareosa
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Binomial name | |
Eugnorisma glareosa (Esper, 1788)
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The autumnal rustic (Eugnorisma glareosa) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper in 1788. It was previously placed in the genus Paradiarsia. It is found in northern and western Europe and North Africa.
The
Distribution
Eugnorisma glareosum is a species with an Atlantic-Mediterranean distribution, which occurs from Morocco and the Iberian Peninsula, through western and central Europe to the British Isles, southern Norway, southern Sweden, Poland and Estonia. It has expanded to the east in the last century.
Technical description and variation
Forewing pearly grey, with fine dark dusting; cell before and beyond orbicular stigma velvety black brown; subbasal and inner lines marked each by a black spot on costa and another below median vein; outer and submarginal lines pale; hindwing whitish, dusted with grey, especially in female - the form edda Stgr. occurring in the Shetland Islands is dark, with forewing red brown and the hindwing dark brown; — rosea Tutt is lilac grey suffused with rosy; - limbata Gouin, from the Gironde in France, has the forewing tinged with bluish green, and the marginal area darker than usual.[2]
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Biology
Larva pale brown, darker along the sides; the dorsal and subdorsal lines pale, dark edged; spiracular line ochreous yellow. The
This species overwinters as a very small larva.References
- ^ Savela, Markku. "Eugnorisma glareosa (Esper, 1788)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved June 28, 2019. Taxonomy
- ^ Seitz, A. Ed., 1914 Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde, Verlag Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart Band 3: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen eulenartigen Nachtfalter, 1914
- ^ Robinson, Gaden S.; Ackery, Phillip R.; Kitching, Ian J.; Beccaloni, George W.; Hernández, Luis M. (2010). "Search the database - introduction and help". HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. Natural History Museum, London.
- Chinery, Michael Collins Guide to the Insects of Britain and Western Europe 1986 (Reprinted 1991)
- Skinner, Bernard The Colour Identification Guide to Moths of the British Isles 1984
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External links
- Kimber, Ian. "73.365 BF2117 Autumnal Rustic Eugnorisma glareosa (Esper, 1788)". UKMoths. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
- Fauna Europaea
- Lepiforum e.V.