Globia algae

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Rush wainscot
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Globia
Species:
G. algae
Binomial name
Globia algae
(Esper, 1789) [1]
Synonyms
  • Capsula algae
  • Archanara algae
  • Phalaena Noctua algaeEsper, [1789]
  • Nonagria cannaeTreitschke, 1825
  • Nonagria russaEversmann, 1847

Globia algae, the rush wainscot, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper in 1789. It is found in central and southern Europe (and very sporadically in north-western Europe), Turkey, Armenia, northern Caucasus, south-west Siberia.

Contents

The genus Capsula was renamed Globia because of a naming conflict with a mollusk. [2] [3]

Technical description and variation

The wingspan is 32–45 mm. Forewing yellowish rufous, the rufous tint predominating in the male, the yellowish in the female; veins more or less tinged with grey; a dark smudge at lower angle of cell; an outer row of dark vein-dots; hindwing grey with a dark paler-edged outer line; a rare form, ab. liturata ab. nov. [Warren] has both lines complete and dentate throughout, the median vein thickly black; - in the Norfolk Fens a very dark form occurs, ab. fumata ab. nov. [Warren] with the wings, especially in the male, dark brown or black brown. [4]

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Habitat in Italy

Biology

Adults are on wing from July to September depending on the location. There is one generation per year.

The larvae are greenish dotted with black; head brown; thoracic plate pale green. The larvae bore the stems of Scirpus lacustris , Typha species and Iris pseudacorus .

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References

  1. Fauna Europaea
  2. Zilli, Alberto; Varga, Zoltan; Ronkay, Gábor; Ronkay, Laszlo (2010). A Taxonomic Atlas of the Eurasian and North African Noctuoidea. The Witt Catalogue, Volume III. Apameini. Heterocera Press. ISBN   978-963-88014-3-2.
  3. "Globia algae". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-12-22.
  4. 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