Hadena filograna

Hadena filograna
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Noctuidae
Genus:	Hadena
Species:	H. filograna
Binomial name
Hadena filograna (Esper, 1788)
Synonyms
Phalaena (Noctua) filogranaEsper, 1788 Phalaena (Noctua) filigramaEsper, 1796 Noctua polymitaHübner, [1803] Noctua xanthocyaneaHübner, [1819] Xanthopastis flavivibicaHübner, [1821] Dianthoecia estonicaDraudt, 1934 Hadena filigramma (misspelling)

Hadena filograna is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae. Subspecies filograna is found from central and southern Europe to Anatolia. The most northern part of the range is Sweden. Subspecies conspargata is found in Ukraine and from southern Russia to the Altai Mountains and ssp. rungsi is found in North Africa.

Description

The wingspan is 30–35 mm. Warren states H. filigrama Esp. (= filograna Esp., filigramma Frr., flavivibica Hbn.) (18f). Like magnolii , but the forewing dusted with ferruginous scales; the type form is brown, like magnolii, in ground colour, without white admixture, and is restricted in range, occurring, authentically, only in the Mts. of S. Hungary. ^[1]

Subspecies

• Hadena filograna filograna
• Hadena filograna conspargata
• Hadena filograna rungsi

Biology

Adults are on wing from May to June.

The larvae feed on Silene nutans and Silene vulgaris .

References

1. 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 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

External links

• Lepiforum e.V.
• schmetterlinge-deutschlands.de Archived 2012-03-30 at the Wayback Machine