Apamea unanimis

Apamea unanimis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae
Tribe: Apameini
Genus: Apamea
Species: A. unanimis
Binomial name
Apamea unanimis
Hübner, 1813
Synonyms
  • Noctua unanimis

The Small Clouded Brindle (Apamea unanimis) is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is native to Europe, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and western Siberia. It has been introduced in North America and can now be found in Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, New York, Michigan, and Wisconsin.

The wingspan is 30–38 mm. Forewing brownish-fuscous, or, like obscura Haw., redbrown, but without so much of the grey tinge; a black streak from base below cell, and another above inner margin near base; (these though well marked in its aberrations submissa and remissa are not visible in typical obscura); often a blackish streak on submedian fold between the two lines; reniform stigma externally edged with white; the terminal area not so dark, more dusted with grey; the submarginal line not acutely angled below middle; — the form with black streak on submedian fold, sometimes with a paler basal and submarginal areas, as in remissa Hbn, is the ab. secalina Haw.; — ab. rufithorax ab. nov. [Warren], agreeing in both respects with secalina, has besides the whole head and thorax including the patagia bright rufous; the only example, a male, of this form is from Wiesbaden; — two other forms deserve notice; ab. fasciata ab. nov. has the median area filled up with dark fuscous, the pale upper stigmata and the inner and outer lines more conspicuous; the head and thorax blackish; — ab. semiochrea ab. nov.[Warren] has the postmedian area between outer and submarginal lines and the lower part of the median area pale ochreous, and might easily be mistaken for an example of secalis L. ab. oculea Guen.[1]

Adults are on wing from June to July depending on the location.

The larvae feed on the common reed, canarygrasses, and mannagrasses. .[2]

References

  1. ↑ 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
  2. ↑ "Robinson, G. S., et al. 2010. HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. Natural History Museum, London.".
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