Hyssia cavernosa
| Hyssia cavernosa | |
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| Hyssia cavernosa | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Noctuidae |
| Genus: | Hyssia |
| Species: | H. cavernosa |
| Binomial name | |
| Hyssia cavernosa (Eversmann, 1842) | |
Hyssia cavernosa is a species of moth belonging to the family Noctuidae.[1]
It is native to the Palearctic.[1]
Description
[edit]Warren states.H. cavernosa Ev. (= ornata H.-Sch.) (21 f). Forewing violet grey, suffused with fuscous; inner margin below vein 1 prominently yellowish white, a sharp-pointed black streak from the base below vein 1; lines vertical; stigmata large and conspicuous, deep olive brown; claviform bullet-shaped; orbicular round, black-edged, open at the top; reniform with dark centre; outer line minutely dentate, pale-edged, with 2 longer grey teeth along veins 3, 4 touching a subterminal line, which is white, preceded by double dark blotches on the folds and at costa, and an oblong grey blotch between veins 6 and 7; hindwing fuscous, with cell spot and terminal area darker. A South European species found in Italy, Switzerland, Hungary, Austria and S. E. Russia: extending from the Altai Mts. in W. Siberia to Ussuri in E. Siberia, and occurring in W. and E. Turkestan and Mongolia. [2] The larva is green, thickest in the middle and tapering forward and backwards. It has a thin yellow or orange lateral line and two thin white dorsal lines that can be lined with blackish shadows.
Biology
[edit]The larvae feed on Silene spp. and Aristolochia clematitis
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Hyssia cavernosa (Eversmann, 1842)". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
- ↑ 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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