Capsula sparganii
Capsula sparganii | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Noctuidae |
Genus: | Capsula |
Species: | C. sparganii |
Binomial name | |
Capsula sparganii (Esper, 1790) | |
Synonyms | |
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The Webb's Wainscot (Capsula sparganii), formerly known as Archanara sparganii, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Europe, Central Asia, from Southern Siberia to Manchuria, Korea, Turkey, Syria and Iran.
Technical Description and variation
- See glossary for terms used
The wingspan is 32–40 mm. Forewing light yellowish ochreous flushed with rufous, especially in the male; veins paler, and sprinkled with dark fuscous, especially the median vein; lines represented by series of black spots, the outer only distinct and complete; reniform stigma marked by two or more blackish dots at its lower end; a series of black terminal dots; hindwing pale dull yellowish, more or less suffused with fuscous, except towards inner and outer margins. The species is variable both in colour and clearness of markings; thus ab. obsoleta Tutt is an ochreous form dusted with grey and without any reddish or yellowish admixture; ab. rufescens Tutt has the forewing more or less strongly reddish and the hindwing suffused with fuscous to outer line; while ab. bipunctata Tutt has a black dash above median vein, representing the base of an otherwise unmarked orbicular stigma, as the black crescent with its pale centre at end of cell represents the reniform; this form is independent, of colour.[1]
Biology
The moth flies in one generation from July to October and are attracted to light.
Larva slender, pale yellow green; subdorsal and lateral lines darker; head and thoracic plate pale brown. The larvae feed in the stems of Iris pseudacorus, typha and similar watery plants.
Subspecies
- Capsula sparganii sparganii
- Capsula sparganii algaeoides (Iran)
Notes
- ^ The flight season refers to Belgium and The Netherlands. This may vary in other parts of the range.
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
External links
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- European Butterflies and Moths
- Lepidoptera of Belgium
- UK Moths
- Vlindernet (Dutch)
- waarneming.nl (Dutch)
- Lepiforum