Shargacucullia lychnitis

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Shargacucullia lychnitis
Cucullia lychnitis - Striped lychnis (40163517895).jpg
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Shargacucullia
Species:
S. lychnitis
Binomial name
Shargacucullia lychnitis
(Rambur, 1833)
Synonyms
  • Cucullia lychnitisRambur, 1833
  • Cucullia rosamariaKostrowicki, 1956
  • Cucullia symaeaKoutsaftikis, 1974

Shargacucullia lychnitis, the striped lychnis is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found throughout most parts of Europe the Near East and Middle East (Lebanon, Israel, Afghanistan, Iran, Turkmenistan and Iraq).

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Larvae Shargacucullia lychnitis larva.jpg
Larvae

Technical description and variation

C. lychnitis Rmb. (27 g). Forewing narrow, pale ochreous with a more rufous tinge than in thapsiphaga [Shargacucullia thapsiphaga (Treitschke, 1826) ], the costal streak darker; hindwing in both sexes whitish, the terminal shade narrower in the male. Larva greenish white with a pale yellow band on each segment; a dorsal row of curved black bars alternating with rows of 4 black spots; a row of black spots along the sides. [1] The wingspan is 42–47 mm.

Figs.3, 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d larvae after last moult Buckler W The larvae of the British butterflies and moths PlateXCVII.jpg
Figs.3, 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d larvae after last moult

Biology

Adults are on wing from February to April in the eastern parts of its range. In Britain it is on wing from June to July. There is one generation per year.

The larvae feed on the leaves and flowers of Verbascum species (including Verbascum lychnitis , Verbascum nigrum and Verbascum austriacum ).

Subspecies

Similar species

Shargacucullia lychnitis is difficult to certainly distinguish from these congeners. See Townsend et al. [2]

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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, 1914PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  2. Martin C. Townsend, Jon Clifton and Brian Goodey (2010). British and Irish Moths: An Illustrated Guide to Selected Difficult Species. (covering the use of genitalia characters and other features) Butterfly Conservation.