Biology:Diarsia florida
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Short description: Species of moth
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Noctuidae |
| Genus: | Diarsia |
| Species: | D. florida
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| Binomial name | |
| Diarsia florida (Schmidt, 1859)
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Diarsia florida, the fen square-spot, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Schmidt in 1859. It is found from western Europe, Denmark , southern Norway and southern Sweden, east to Romania and Siberia. Subspecies perturbata is found in south-eastern Turkey.
The wingspan is about 34 mm. The ab. florida Schmidt (10 c) appears to be only a brightly coloured and well-marked form [ of Diarsia rubi ]. It may be a fenland ecotype of rubi. [1]
The larvae feed on Athyrium, Betula, Calluna, Caltha, Lamium, Primula, Rubus, Rumex, Scrophularia, Struthiopteryx, Vaccinium and Urtica species.
Subspecies
- Diarsia florida florida
- Diarsia florida perturbata (south-eastern Turkey)
Similar species
Diarsia florida is difficult to certainly distinguish from its congeners. See Townsend et al.[2]
- Protolampra sobrina (Duponchel, 1843)
- Diarsia mendica ssp. mendica (Fabricius, 1775)
- Diarsia mendica ssp. thulei (Staudinger, 1891)
- Diarsia mendica ssp. orkneyensis (Bytinski-Salz, 1930)
- Diarsia rubi (Vieweg, 1790)
References
- ↑ Warren. W. in 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
- ↑ 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. "73.335 BF2124 Fen Square-spot Diarsia florida (Schmidt, 1859)". https://ukmoths.org.uk/species/diarsia-florida/. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
- Lepiforum e.V.
Wikidata ☰ Q44984 entry
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