Amphipoea oculea
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Kingdom: | Animalia
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Phylum: | Arthropoda
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Class: | Insecta
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Species: | A. oculea
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Amphipoea oculea (Linnaeus, 1761)
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Amphipoea oculea, the ear moth, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1761 and it is found in most of the Palearctic realm.
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The wingspan is 29–34 mm. Forewing pale or dark ferruginous brown; the veins brown; inner and outer lines double, brown, wide apart; the inner curved outwards between, and toothed inwards on, the veins; the outer with the inner arm thin, lunulate-dentate, the outer thick, continuous and parallel; a thick dark median shade running between the stigmata; submarginal line indistinct, waved, angled on vein 7, above which it is preceded by a dark costal patch; orbicular stigma rounded, orange, with a brown ring; reniform white, with the veins across it brown and containing on the discocellular a brown-outlined lunule, of which the centre is yellowish; the colour with brown outline; hindwing fuscous grey, paler towards base; the fringe rufous tinged.[1]
Adults are found from June to September depending on the location. There is one generation per year.
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The larvae feed on the stems and roots of various grasses and low plants, including Petasites hybridus.[2]
Similar species[]
Requiring genitalic examination to separate.See Townsend et al.[3]
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, Gaden S.; Ackery, Phillip R.; Kitching, Ian J.; Beccaloni, George W.; Hernández, Luis M. "Search the database - introduction and help". HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. Natural History Museum, London.
- ^ Martin C. Townsend, Jon Clifton and Brian Goodey (2010). British and Irish Moths: An Illustrated Guide to Selected Difficult Species. (covering the use of genitalia characters and other features) Butterfly Conservation.
External links[]
- Kimber, Ian. "73.128 BF2360 Ear Moth Amphipoea oculea (Linnaeus, 1761)". UKMoths. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
- Savela, Markku. "Amphipoea oculea (Linnaeus, 1761)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved June 28, 2019. Taxonomy
- Lepidoptera of Belgium
- De Vlinderstichting (in Dutch)
- Lepiforum e.V. Includes photo of genitalia
- Acronictinae
- Moths described in 1761
- Palearctic Lepidoptera
- Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
- Acronictinae stubs