Biology:Setaceous Hebrew character

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Short description: Species of moth

Setaceous Hebrew character
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Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Xestia
Species:
X. c-nigrum
Binomial name
Xestia c-nigrum
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
  • Megasema c-nigrum (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Linnaeus, 1758 Esper, 1786
  • Schultz, 1908 Agrotis fritschi
  • Agrotis degenerata Culot, 1910
  • Bombyx gothica var. nunatrum Staudinger, 1889
  • Bang-Haas, 1912 Franclemont, 1980
  • Agrotis nigrescens Agrotis suffusa
  • Buresch, 1914 Phalaena c-nigrum
  • Esper, 1786 Tutt, 1892
  • Dannehl, 1925 Agrotis c-nigrum var. depravata
  • Agrotis c-nigrum var. kurilana Agrotis rosea
  • Bryk, 1942 Amathes c-nigrum ignorata
  • Bombyx gothica var. singularis Tutt, 1892
  • Eitschberger, 1972 Agrotis maerens
  • Xestia adela Agrotis umbrata

The setaceous Hebrew character (Xestia c-nigrum) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is found in the Palearctic realm. It is a common species throughout Europe and North Asia and Central Asia, South Asia, China , Japan and Korea. It is also found in North America, from coast to coast across Canada and the northern United States to western Alaska. It occurs in the Rocky Mountains from Montana to southern Arizona and New Mexico. In the east, it ranges from Maine to North Carolina. It has recently been recorded in Tennessee .

The forewings of this species are reddish brown with distinctive patterning towards the base; a black mark resembling the Hebrew letter nun (נ) with a pale cream-coloured area adjacent to this mark. The hindwings are cream coloured.

Description

The wingspan is 35–45 mm. Forewing purplish grey or purplish fuscous with a leaden gloss; costal area at middle ochreous, merged with the bluntly triangular orbicular stigma: cell, a submedian basal blotch, and costal spot before apex purplish black; claviform stigma minute; reniform large, the lower lobe purplish; hindwing ochreous whitish, in female with the termen broadly fuscous.[1]

Lava pink with a broad dark brown subdorsal band. A lateral yellow band with a brown spot on it. Head reddish brown in color.[2]

Biology

Two broods are produced each year and the adults are on the wing between May and October.[1] This moth flies at night and is attracted to light and sugar, as well as flowers such as Buddleia, ivy and ragwort.

The larva is pale brown red-brown or green with obscure paler dorsal and subdorsal lines and a broad pale ochreous spiracular line. It feeds on a huge variety of plants (see list below). The species overwinters as a larva.

  1. ^ The flight season refers to the British Isles. This may vary in other parts of the range.

Recorded food plants

Documented food plants include:[3]


See also

References

  1. 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
  2. Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Moths - Vol. II. Taylor and Francis. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180400#page/5/mode/1up. 
  3. Robinson, Gaden S.; Ackery, Phillip R.; Kitching, Ian; Beccaloni, George W.; Hernández, Luis M. (2023). Robinson, G. S., P. R. Ackery, I. J. Kitching, G. W. Beccaloni & L. M. Hernández, 2010. HOSTS – A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. Natural History Museum, London.. Natural History Museum. doi:10.5519/havt50xw. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/research/projects/hostplants/. 
  • Chinery, Michael. Collins Guide to the Insects of Britain and Western Europe 1986 (Reprinted 1991)
  • Skinner, Bernard. Colour Identification Guide to Moths of the British Isles 1984

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q2094340 entry