| Earias clorana | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Nolidae |
| Genus: | Earias |
| Species: | E. clorana |
| Binomial name | |
| Earias clorana (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
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Earias clorana, the cream-bordered green pea, is a moth of the family Nolidae. It is found in most of Europe eastwards across the Palearctic to the Urals and Western Siberia.
Earis chlorana L. (= viride Retz.) Forewing pale green; the costa white to beyond middle, the edge towards base brownish; hindwing white; the termen and fringe faintly greenish above vein 2; in the ab. flavimargo de Joan., from Brittany, the fringe is yellowish at base, brown in the middle, and white at the tips; ab. hemixantha de Joan, has the terminal area, except at costa, suffused with orange yellow. Larva whitish mottled with grey; the lines rusty grey, darker in places; pairs of somewhat pointed tubercles on segments 3, 4, 6, and 12; head pale green with black marks. [1] The wingspan is 16–20 mm.
The moth flies from May to August depending on the location.
The larvae feed on various willow species – Salix (British Isles, Finland, Europe), Salix aurita (Finland), Salix caprea (Finland), Salix cinerea (Finland), Salix lapponum (Finland), Salix purpurea (Finland), Salix repens (British Isles), Salix viminalis (British Isles) polyphagous (Sweden, Europe) [2] spinning together the topmost leaves of the shoots and pupating in a boat shaped cocoon.
The flame shoulder is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1761. It is distributed throughout the Palearctic from Ireland in the west to Siberia then Korea and Japan in the east.
The dot moth is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1761. It is a very distinctive species with very dark brown, almost black, forewings marked with a large white stigma from which the species gets its common name. The hindwings are grey with a dark band at the termen. The wingspan is 38–50 mm. It flies at night in July and August and is attracted to light, sugar and flowers.
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The Hebrew character is a moth in the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is found throughout Europe.
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Agrochola circellaris, or The Brick, is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel in 1766. It is distributed throughout most of Europe, Asia Minor and Armenia.
The miller is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found throughout Europe apart from the far south-east. The range extends from the South of Spain, Central Italy and Bulgaria to Scotland and Central Scandinavia, crossing the Arctic circle in Finland and Norway. Outside Europe it is only known in North Africa. In the Eastern Palearctic and the Nearctic realm it is replaced by Acronicta vulpina, formerly known as Acronicta leporina subspecies vulpina.
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Acronicta menyanthidis, the light knot grass, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is distributed through northern, central and eastern Europe, east to Siberia and the Russian Far East.
The Burren Green(Calamia tridens) is a moth of the family Noctuidae.
Anaplectoides prasina is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in both the Palearctic and Nearctic realms.
Catocala electa, the rosy underwing, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Karl Friedrich Vieweg in 1790. It can be found in Europe and Asia.
Synthymia is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae. It contains only one species, Synthymia fixa, The Goldwing, which is found in southern Europe and North Africa.
Grammodes stolida, the geometrician, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1775. It is found in Africa, southern Europe, most of Asia and Australia. It migrates to central and northern Europe as far north as England, Denmark and Finland.
The lesser-spotted pinion is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in central and southern Europe, north to Great Britain, Denmark, southern Sweden up to Saint Petersburg. East, its range extends through northern and Central Asia up to Japan. It is also found in north-western Africa.
The lunar-spotted pinion is a moth of the family Noctuidae.
Hadula melanopa, the broad-bordered white underwing, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Carl Peter Thunberg in 1791. Subspecies H. m. melanopa is found in northern Scandinavia; subspecies H. m. rupestralis is found in the Alps, the Balkan Mountains and the Apennine Mountains; subspecies H. m. brunnea is found in mountainous areas of Great Britain and subspecies H. m. koizumidakeana is found in Japan.
Nycteola revayana, the oak nycteoline, is a moth of the family Nolidae. The species was first described by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in 1772. It is found from Europe and east across the Palearctic to Japan and India.
Eublemma ostrina, the purple marbled, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Jacob Hübner in 1808. It is mainly found in central and southern Europe, and further east, but is also a scarce migrant in the United Kingdom, where it is mainly found along the south coast.
The Beautiful Gothic(Leucochlaena oditis) is a Palearctic moth of the family Noctuidae, sub-family Cuculliinae. It is found in southern Europe and north Africa, with occasional finds on the southern coast of England.
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