Biology:Rhyacia simulans

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Short description: Species of moth

Dotted rustic
Standfussiana simulans.jpg
Rhyacia simulans.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Rhyacia
Species:
R. simulans
Binomial name
Rhyacia simulans
(Hufnagel, 1766)
Synonyms
  • Phalaena simulans Hufnagel, 1766
  • Noctua tristis Fabricius, 1775
  • Noctua pyrophila [Schiffermüller], 1775
  • Phalaena (Noctua) radicea Esper, 1789
  • Agrotis simulans var. obscurata Staudinger, 1901
  • Agrotis augurides Rothschild, 1914
  • Standfussiana simulans

Rhyacia simulans, the dotted rustic, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel in 1766. It is found in most of Europe, south to Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, east to Turkey, the Caucasus, Tomsk and Minusinsk.

Technical description and variation

The wingspan is 45–60 mm. It is like Epipsilia latens Hbn. but larger; the forewing paler, the stigmata with distinct pale and dark outlines. pyrophila Schiff. is ochreous grey; suffusa Tutt is darker, the forewing being blackish grey; —latens Stph. is unicolorous black, with still more intense markings.[1]

Biology

Adults are on wing from June to September.

Larva dark brown; the subdorsal area brownish-tannish peach; dorsal line thin, pale, edged with black; a row of dorsal V-shaped marks; an interrupted white lateral stripe.

The larvae feed on Gramineae, Rumex and Taraxacum species.[2]

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. Robinson, Gaden S.; Ackery, Phillip R.; Kitching, Ian J.; Beccaloni, George W.; Hernández, Luis M. (2010). "Search the database - introduction and help". Natural History Museum, London. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/hostplants. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q1315178 entry