Dichagyris signifera
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Noctuidae |
Genus: | Dichagyris |
Species: | D. signifera
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Binomial name | |
Dichagyris signifera (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
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Dichagyris signifera is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found from Spain and France, east through central and southern Europe (including Italy and Greece) to Latvia and Russia.
Description
[edit]The wingspan is 34–40 mm.Warren (1914) states E. signifera F. (7 g). Forewing brownish grey with a reddish tinge ; the costal area , the median and submedian veins speckled pale grey and black; the veinlets blackish; a black streak from base below cell: stigmata as in turbans [error],Dichagyris disturbans but the reniform broader and not angled inwards; marginal area more prominently streaked with dark ; hindwing whitish, with a fuscous tinge towards margin, especially in the female.Widely spread, occurring in the Alps of France and Switzerland, in Germany, Austria, Hungary and Russia, and throughout W. Asia; Armenia, Asia Minor, Syria, Persia, Turkestan and W. Siberia; — in the ab. improcera Stgr. [Dichagyris orientis (Alphéraky, 1882)](7g), which is a duller insect, more like turbans [Dichagyris disturbans (Püngeler, 1914)] , the markings are all obscured; orientis Alph.Dichagyris orientis (7g) is much paler, uniform smooth ochreous grey, with the black basal streak and costal spots prominent ; both these aberrations are confined to W. Asia. [1]
Biology
[edit]The larvae feed on Echium, Poa and Plantago species.
References
[edit]- ^ 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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