Enargia paleacea

Enargia paleacea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Enargia
Species: E. paleacea
Binomial name
Enargia paleacea
Esper, 1788
Synonyms
  • Phalaena paleacea
  • Noctua paleacea
  • Noctua angulago
  • Noctua fulvago

Enargia paleacea, the angle-striped sallow, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in the Palearctic ecozone from Ireland to Siberia [1] East to Japan.

Male
Female

Description

For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.

The wingspan is 40–60 mm. Forewing pale yellowish ochreous, dusted with rufous; the female deeper yellow than the male; inner and outer lines fine, reddish brown; median shade reddish-brown, more diffuse, angulated: subterminal line hardly marked; orbicular and reniform stigmata outlined with reddish brown, the lower lobe of reniform filled up with grey; a series of dark terminal spots; hindwing whitish yellow: ab. angulago Haw. is deep orange instead of pale yellow: teichi Krul. occurring in Germany and W. Russia has the space, between inner and outer lines or between median and submarginal suffused with reddish grey or brown.[2]

Biology

The moth flies from June to October depending on the location.

The larvae feed on birch and sometimes Populus tremula.

References

  1. ↑ Colour Atlas of Siberian Lepidoptera
  2. ↑ 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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