Lacanobia contigua

Lacanobia contigua
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae
Tribe: Hadenini
Genus: Lacanobia
Species: L. contigua
Binomial name
Lacanobia contigua
Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775

The Beautiful Brocade (Lacanobia contigua) is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found throughout temperate regions of the Palearctic ecozone from Ireland East to Siberia and Japan.

Technical Description and variation

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The wingspan is 36–42 mm.Forewing pale ashgrey, suffused with olive brown ; a black streak from base below cell, with a pale costal blotch above it ; claviform stigma dark, followed by an ochreous white patch at base of vein 2; orbicular stigma whitish, with grey centre, forming with the pale patch beyond claviform and a large pale blotch on inner, margin beyond outer line a kind of oblique pale bar; reniform with lower lobe blackish, followed by a fulvous tinge; submarginal line strongly dentate, the teeth on 3 and 4 reaching margin; hindwing whitish grey, the veins and termen darker. The form subcontigua Ev. is a dark suffused insect, without the pale patches, from the Ural Mts. in Russia, but similar examples occur in other parts; - ab. amurensis Spul. from Amurland is more delicate in the outline of wing, reddish grey in colour, with the markings less distinct. [1]

Biology

The moth flies from May to July depending on the location.

Larva dull yellowish green, mottled with orange and reddish brown; dorsum with a row of dark V-shaped markings; spiracular line reddish brown.The larva mainly feed on a wide variety of various trees, bushes and herbaceous plants:Betulaceae, Umbelliferae, Ranunculaceae Cruciferae, Salicaceae,Dennstaedtiaceae, Crassulaceae, Urticaceae, Ericaceae etc. .[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., 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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