Syngrapha ain

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Syngrapha ain
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Syngrapha ain, feeding
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Syngrapha
Species:
S. ain
Binomial name
Syngrapha ain
(Hochenwarth, 1785)

Syngrapha ain is a moth of the family Noctuidae.

Subspecies

Habitat of S. ain in the Alps: Rhemes Valley, Valle d'Aosta, abt. 1800 m. a.s.l. Val di Rhemes, Val d'Aosta, Italy.jpg
Habitat of S. ain in the Alps: Rhêmes Valley, Valle d’Aosta, abt. 1800 m. a.s.l.

Description

Wingspan 34–40 mm. Ground color of forewing upperside gray-brown, with strongly serrated wavy lines and a distinctive silvery white mark resembling letter gamma. Hindwings yellow, with a wide black border. Thorax hairy with some tufts of hair. Proboscis well developed.

Contents

S. ain is a daytime flier, on the wings from July to August, depending on location. Larvae green, with yellowish longitudinal and double dorsal lines. They feed on Larix species. [2] Pupa dark brown.

Distribution and habitat

S. ain is a Eurasiatic species, found locally in subalpine and alpine larch forests of the Alps, northern Carpathians (Krkonoše and Tatra Mts., sporadically also in South Slovakia and North Hungary), then eastwards in southern Ural Mts. and the south of Siberia. In the Far East, it inhabits the Korean Peninsula as well as Japan. [3] [1]

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