Noctua interjecta
Appearance
Least 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. interjecta
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Binomial name | |
Noctua interjecta Hübner, 1803
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Noctua interjecta, the least yellow underwing, is a moth of the family Noctuoidea. It is found in Europe.
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Technical description and variation
The wingspan is 31–36 mm. The length of the forewings is 14–17 mm. Forewing greyish rufous, sometimes darkened with fuscous; lines and stigmata a little darker, often very obscure; hindwing orange yellow with a broad marginal black border; costal and inner margins, a submedian streak from base, and the cell blackish; fringe yellow.[1]
Biology
The moth flies in one generation from late June to August.[1]
Larva pale ochreous with black dots; the lines pale, with darker edges. The larvae feed on various grasses and herbaceous plants such as meadowsweet and Malva sylvestris.[2]
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Subspecies
- Noctua interjecta interjecta (Alps, southern France, northern and south-eastern Spain, northern Portugal, Italy, Bulgaria, northern Greece and Romania)
- Noctua interjecta caliginosa (Schawerda, 1919) (southern and central England, Wales, southern Ireland, northern France, Belgium, Luxemburg, Netherlands, northern Germany, Denmark, southern Sweden, Czech Republic and Austria)
Notes
- ^ The flight season refers to Belgium and the Netherlands. This may vary in other parts of the range.
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
- ^ "Robinson, G.S., P.R. Ackery, I.J. Kitching, G.W. Beccaloni, & L.M. Hernández. (2010). HOSTS – A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. Natural History Museum, London".
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Noctua interjecta.
- Lepiforum
- Noctua interjecta, at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- Fauna Europaea
- Noctua interjecta (Hübner, 1803), Lepidoptera of Belgium
- Least yellow underwing, at UKMoths