Epipsilia latens
| Epipsilia latens | |
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| Epipsilia latens 11f | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Noctuidae |
| Genus: | Epipsilia |
| Species: | E. latens |
| Binomial name | |
| Epipsilia latens (Hübner, [1809]) | |
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Epipsilia latens is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in central Europe, northern Spain, the Apennines, northern Iran, Turkey, Armenia and the Caucasus.
Technical Description and variation
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The wingspan is 33–36 mm. Forewing dingy luteous grey, varying from pale to dark; in pale examples the outer and inner lines are sharply black; stigmata in all cases indistinct; hindwing of female fuscous, of male dull whitish with grey border; the veins and postmedian line grey.[1]
Biology
Adults are on wing from June to September.
Larva yellowish brown; dorsal and subdorsal lines pale, the latter bordered inwardly by a black line thickened at middle of each segment; lateral line conspicuously black; head yellowish brown, with two dark streaks. The larvae feed on Gramineae species.
Subspecies
- Epipsilia latens latens (central Europe, northern Spain)
- Epipsilia latens illuminata (Apennines)
- Epipsilia latens hyrcana (northern Iran, Turkey, Armenia, Caucasus)
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
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