Noctua fimbriata
Broad-bordered yellow underwing | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Noctuidae |
Genus: | Noctua |
Species: | N. fimbriata
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Binomial name | |
Noctua fimbriata Schreber, 1759
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Noctua fimbriata, the broad-bordered yellow underwing, is a
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Technical description and variation
The wingspan is 45–55 mm. The length of the forewings is 22–27 mm. Forewing ranging from pale ochreous and rufous in the female to red-brown and olive-green in the male; ochreous males are rare; markings slight in the female, strong in the male;inner line dark; outer and submarginal pale; upper stigmata large, pale-edged, often touching; a dark costal blotch before submarginal line: hindwing and fringe orange, with a very broad black border; the pale rufous forms are known as ab. rufa Tutt, and the deep red-brown forms as ab. brunnea Tutt; the dark olive-green males are solani F., while the paler more ochreous green specimens (? males) are ab. virescens Tutt; — a rare and handsome form of the males called by Tutt ab. brunnea-virescens has the deep red-brown and olive-green tints combine. forewing blackish = obscura Lenz.].[1]
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Biology
The moth flies in one generation from late June to September.
Larva reddish ochreous, paler at the sides and spotted with brown; dorsal line paler; a dark pale-edged bar across the 12th segment; spiracles pale on dark spots. The larvae feed on Rumex, nettle and low growing woody plants on occasion.[2]
References
- ^ 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
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External links
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- Lepiforum
- Noctua fimbriata at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- Fauna Europaea
- Vlindernet (in Dutch)
- waarneming.nl (in Dutch)
- Lepidoptera of Belgium
- Broad-bordered yellow underwing, at UKMoths