Callopistria latreillei

Latreille's Latin
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Noctuidae
Genus:	Callopistria
Species:	C. latreillei
Binomial name
	Callopistria latreillei; (Duponchel, 1827)
Synonyms
	Noctua latreillei Duponchel, 1827 ; Callopistria latreillei rakoto Viette, 1965 ; Callopistria rechingeri (Koutsaftikis, 1973) ; Erastria roseitelum Walker, 1858 ;

Callopistria latreillei, Latreille's Latin, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species can be found in the Palearctic realm, most parts of Europe, Asia, and in Africa from Egypt to South Africa.^[1] The habitat consists of rocky limestone slopes with deciduous woodland.

Technical description and variation

E. latreillei Dup. (= quieta Tr. nec Hbn., roseitelum Walk.) (44 f). Forewing whitish, suffused with pale and dark grey, and in parts with blackish fuscous; inner and outer lines black edged with white; a prominent white spot before inner line on submedian fold; stigmata dark grey, with interrupted pale outlines; the reniform with a white dot beyond lower outer angle; submarginal line powdery white, interrupted by the olive or pinkish veins, and preceded by a pink wedge-shaped mark on vein 6; a lunulate white line close before termen; fringe olive yellow, chequered with white; hindwing fuscous, paler towards base in the male. Larva redbrown, with a black dorsal triangle broadly edged with yellow on each segment; lateral lines yellowy with a black spot on each segment.^[2] The wingspan is about 25 millimetres (0.98 in).

Biology

There are two generations per year with adults on wing from May to October.^[3]

The larvae have been recorded feeding on Ceterach officinarum, Cochlearia species and Adiantum capillus-veneris.^[4]

References

^ De Prins, J.; De Prins, W. (2017). "Callopistria latreillei (Duponchel, 1827)". Afromoths. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
^ 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 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^ UKMoths
^ Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa

(in French) Duponchel, 1827. In Godart, J. B. & Duponchel, P. A. J., Histoire naturelle des Lépidoptères ou Papillons de France. 7.

External links

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[1] De Prins, J.; De Prins, W. (2017). "Callopistria latreillei (Duponchel, 1827)". Afromoths. Retrieved November 17, 2017.

[2] 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 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

[3] UKMoths

[4] Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa

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