Tholera cespitis
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Hexapoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Noctuidae |
| Genus: | Tholera |
| Species: | T. cespitis |
| Binomial name | |
| Tholera cespitis (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) | |
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The Hedge Rustic (Tholera cespitis) is a species of moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found through the Palearctic from Europe to the Altai Mountains, Siberia.
Technical Description and variation
- See glossary for terms used
The wingspan is 34–40 mm. Forewing dark earth brown; lines indistinct; inner and outer black with paler edges; submarginal pale, with black wedge-shaped spots before it; claviform stigma obscure, black-edged; orbicular roundish, brown with pale ring; reniform large with paler outline, especially externally; hindwing whitish, the veins dark; termen diffusely brownish; in male white, with termen narrowly grey; — ab. ferruginea Hofm. (Carinthia and the Tyrol) is much paler with a reddish yellow tint.[1]
Biology
There is one generation per year with adults on wing from the end of July to September.
Larva shining dark brown; thoracic and anal plates black; head brown; dorsal and subdorsal lines narrow, pale yellow; lateral stripe broader; spiracles black. The larvae feed on various grasses, including Nodus stricta, Calamagrostis purpurea, Festuca and Deschampsia species. .[2] Larvae can be found from March to July. The species overwinters as an egg.
Subspecies
- Tholera cespitis cespitis
- Tholera cespitis armena Hacker, 1986
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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