Eriopygodes imbecilla, the Silurian, is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1794.[1][2]
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Distribution
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editThis species commonly lives on gullies and hollows in high moorland areas with host plants.[5]
Description
editThe wingspan is 24–27 mm.[6][7] The colour of these small moths may vary from tawny to reddish brown. Forewings usually show a pale kidney mark and two wavy cross lines, but often these markings are quite indistinct. Usually females are darker or chocolate brown and smaller than the males.[5] The rear wings are often pale greyish. Seitz describes it E. imbecilla F. (= aliena male Hbn., alpina female Hbn., disparilis O., nexa Dup.) Forewing rufous ochreous, sometimes grey-tinged, in the male, rufous brown in the female; veins finely brownish; inner and outer lines brown; submarginal obscure, the marginal area beyond it generally darker; reniform stigma externally whitish, preceded by a brownish median shade ; hindwing greyish fuscous : fringe rufous. — Larva dirty grey, with a few yellowish grey hairs; dorsal line fine, whitish, traversing a series of black or brown oval blotches : lateral stripes dark grey, with a pale line at middle ; spiracles black , each with a shining black point above it; head blackish, with 3 white lines.[8]
Biology
editAdults fly from June to July.[5] Larvae are polyphagous on low plants, mainly feeding on bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus), heath bedstraw (Galium saxatile),[5] Knautia and Lamium.[4][9]
References
edit- ^ BioLib.cz
- ^ Catalogue of Life
- ^ Fauna Europaea
- ^ a b Savela, Markku. "Lasionycta imbecilla (Fabricius, 1794)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved June 27, 2019.
- ^ a b c d Butterfly Conservation
- ^ "Eriopygodes imbecilla (Fabricius, 1794) - Silurian". The Cockayne Collection. Natural History Museum, London.
- ^ The Moths of Suffolk
- ^ Warren. W. in 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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- ^ Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa
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