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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The Brindled Ochre (Dasypolia templi) 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
- See glossary for terms used
The length of the fore-wings 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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