Biology:Heliothis maritima
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Noctuidae |
Genus: | Heliothis |
Species: | H. maritima
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Binomial name | |
Heliothis maritima Graslin, 1855
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The shoulder-striped clover (Heliothis maritima) is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in most of Europe, Ukraine , southern Russia and southern Siberia, Transbaikalia, Turkey, central Asia, China , Japan , the Korean Peninsula, Mongolia, northern India , Pakistan , the Russian Far East (Primorye, southern Khabarovsk, the Amur region, southern Sakhalin and the southern Kuriles).
Technical description and variation
C. maritima Grasl. (= spergulariae Led.). Like dipsacea L., but the apex of forewing more produced, the median shade more oblique, and the outer fascia straighter; the terminal segment of palpi blackish, without scaling; — in the ab. ferruginea Spul. the forewing is suffused with fulvous and the hindwing with deeper yellow. — Larva either grey green with fine dark dorsal line and broad dark lateral lines above the yellowish white spiracles ; or reddish grey with two fine dark dorsal lines close together; or bluish grey green with black-brown lateral line.[1] The wingspan is 30–36 mm.
Biology
Adults are on wing from June to July in western Europe. Recorded food plants include Spergula, Spergularia, Calluna and Erica.
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
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