Dasypolia templi
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Noctuidae |
| Genus: | Dasypolia |
| Species: | D. templi |
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| Dasypolia templi Thunberg, 1792 | |
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Dasypolia templi, the brindled ochre, is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in northern Europe up to central Siberia and more to the south in mountainous areas.
Description
The length of the forewings is 18–23 mm. Forewing pale yellow grey in the male, simply pale grey in the female, densely dusted with darker: the lines diffusely darker still, outwardly edged with pale ground colour; median area often darker, the reniform, and sometimes the orbicular, showing paler; submarginal line pale, waved; fringe chequered, grey and yellowish; hindwing a little paler, with cellspot, outer, and sometimes a submarginal line greyer; — ab. alpina Ruehl. is an alpine form, with the ground colour more bluish grey, the stigmata picked out with chalk-white, and the outer line of hindwing more strongly marked.[1]
Biology
Larva yellowish grey, tinged dorsally with red; when fullgrown, fleshcolour, with large tubercles; head, thoracic, and anal plates brown. The larva feed on Aegopodium podagraria, Angelica silvestris, Angelica archangelica v. litoralis, Levisticum officinale, Heracleum sphondylium and Heracleum laciniatum.[2]
Subspecies
The following subspecies are recognised:
- Dasypolia templi alpina
- Dasypolia templi variegata
- Dasypolia templi banghaasi
- Dasypolia templi calobrolucana
- Dasypolia templi powelli
- Dasypolia templi koenigi
- Dasypolia templi vecchimontium
- Dasypolia templi anatolica
- Dasypolia templi armeniaca
- Dasypolia templi hortensis
- Dasypolia templi centralasiae
- Dasypolia templi dushaki
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.".
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