Valeria oleagina

Valeria oleagina
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Noctuidae
Genus:	Valeria
Species:	V. oleagina
Binomial name
	Valeria oleagina; (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
Synonyms
	Synvaleria oleagina; Bombyx oleagina;

The green-brindled dot (Valeria oleagina) is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in southern Europe and the Middle East, then east to Iran and Ukraine. In Germany it is found up to the Eifel and Ahr.

Technical description and variation

V. oleagina F. (33 a, b). Forewing purple; the veins,, especially at termen, broadly green; lines blackish, indistinct; claviform small, obscure; orbicular round, green with a white ring; reniform large, white, with a dark speck at each end; submarginal line whitish, lunulate, preceded by purple brown contiguous lunules; fringe irongrey cut by white pencils ; hindwing white, with fuscous cellspot, outer line, submarginal band, and fringes; marginal line wavy, black. Larva brownish-grey, paler in front; the hind segments laterally with oblique pale streaks; a pair of blunt points on the 11th and 12th segments; spiracles black between two yellow lateral lines; head black with an orange yellow corslet.^[1] The wingspan is 34–38 mm.

Biology

Adults are on wing from March to April depending on the location.

The larvae feed on the leaves of Prunus spinosa north of the Alps. In the South they feed on Prunus and Crataegus species.

References

^ 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.

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[1] 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.

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