Biology:Mniotype adusta
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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: | Mniotype |
| Species: | M. adusta
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| Binomial name | |
| Mniotype adusta (Esper, 1790)[1]
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Mniotype adusta, the dark brocade, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It was described by Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper in 1790. It is found throughout much of the Palearctic from Europe to Japan , China and Mongolia. It is also found in North America.[2] The habitat consists of heathland, chalky downland, fenland, moorland and upland areas.
Technical description and variation
The wingspan is 42–48 mm. Forewing rufous-brown clouded with darker; the veins black dotted with white; a slight black mark below base of cell, and a short black streak from inner margin near base; inner and outer lines blackish, double, forming black white-tipped teeth on the veins; claviform stigma blackish, acute, lying on a black streak joining the two lines; orbicular and reniform reddish grey edged with black, the reniform with some whitish in outer half; submarginal line white preceded by black wedge-shaped marks; hindwing of male whitish with the termen grey; the cellspot and veins dark; much greyer in female. Of general occurrence throughout Europe and in Asia found in Armenia, Asia Minor, W. and E. Siberia, W. and E. Turkestan and Tibet; - the form vulturina Frr., from S. Russia, has the forewing darker and variegated with white; - duplex Haw. is also a dark but unicolorous form, occurring in Scotland and the North of England; - sylvatica Bell is a grey, obscurely marked, insect without brownish tinge, from Corsica; - septentrionalis Hoffm. is a small black form from Finland, the Baltic provinces and the Ural Mts., of which moesta Stgr. from Dauria is possibly a synonym; - vicina Alph. from Central Asia is paler, more violet brown, with the markings clearly expressed; anilis Bsd. is whitish, thickly dusted with black, with no trace of red-brown tinge.[3]
Subspecies
- Mniotype adusta adjuncta (Moore, 1881) (Nepal, Tibet, Pakistan, northern India)
- Mniotype adusta grisescens (Standfuss, 1893) (Corsica)
- Mniotype adusta moesta (Staudinger, 1898) (Russia)
- Mniotype adusta urupino (Bryk, 1942) (Kuriles)
- Mniotype adusta vicina (Alphéraky, 1882) (Mongolia, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, China)
- Mniotype adusta virgata (Tutt, 1892) (Shetland Islands)
Biology
Adults are on wing from May to July.[4]
Larva grey green, suffused dorsally with reddish, with many small fine streaks; dorsal and subdorsal lines dark; spiracular line pale, whitish or yellowish; head greenish ochreous. The larvae feed on Sedum telephium, Calluna vulgaris, Vaccinium uliginosum, Solidago virgaurea, Artemisia vulgaris and Artemisia absinthium. Larvae develop from mid-June to early or mid-September. Pupation occurs in the spring.
References
- ↑ Fauna Europaea
- ↑ Lepidoptera and their ecology
- ↑ 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
- ↑ UKmoths
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q12008969 entry
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