Enargia paleacea
| Enargia paleacea | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Noctuidae |
| Genus: | Enargia |
| Species: | E. paleacea |
| Binomial name | |
| Enargia paleacea Esper, 1788 | |
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The Angle-striped Sallow (Enargia paleacea) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in the Palearctic ecozone from Ireland to Siberia [1] East to Japan.
Description
- See glossary for terms used
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
- ↑ Colour Atlas of Siberian Lepidoptera
- ↑ 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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