Epipsilia grisescens

Epipsilia grisescens is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Fennoscandia, Denmark as well as the Pyrenees, Alps, Apennines, Balkans and Carpathians. In the Alps it is found up to 2,000 meters.

Epipsilia grisescens
Female
Male
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Noctuidae
Genus:
Epipsilia
Species:
E. grisescens
Binomial name
Epipsilia grisescens
(Fabricius, 1794)
Synonyms
  • Noctua grisescens Fabricius, 1794
  • Rhyacia grisescens (Fabricius, 1794)
  • Euxoa grisescens (Fabricius, 1794)
  • Epipsilia ignicola Hübner, [1813]
  • Epipsilia latens Boisduval, 1832 (preocc.)
  • Epipsilia corrosa Herrich-Schäffer, 1850
  • Epipsilia defasciata Wendlandt, 1902
  • Epipsilia fasciata Vorbrodt, 1917
  • Epipsilia albescens Sohn-Rethel, 1929
  • Epipsilia (Agrotis) grisescens coralita Hospital, 1948
  • Epipsilia obscurata Feichtenberger, 1942
  • Epipsilia lucida Feichtenberger, 1962

Description

The wingspan is 24–34 mm. E. grisescens F. (= candelisequa Hbn., ? ignicola Hbn., latens Boisd., corrosa H.-Sch.) (6g). Fore- wing shining pale or brownish grey; the lines black and very distinct; orbicular and reniform stigmata illdefined, but separated by a quadrate black spot, sometimes placed on a broad median shade; hindwing dull white, towards termen fuscous brown ; a widely spread species in Europe, occurring in the Mts. of France, Switzerland. Italy, Hungary and Scandinavia; the 2 forms thianshanica Stgr. and hyrcana Stgr.[now subspecies E. l. hyrcana (Staudinger, 1899)], the former smaller, with whitish grey, less marked, forewings, the latter yellowish grey, both occur only in W. Asia, the former in Turkestan, the latter in Persia. Larva (teste Ruhl) brownish green, with white lines and dark oblique subdorsal streaks; the head yellow green varied with dark; feeding on Leontodon taraxacum. [1]

Subspecies
  • Epipsilia grisescens grisescens (Pyrenees, Alps, Apennines, Balkans, Carpathians)
  • Epipsilia grisescens septentrionalis (Fennoscandia, Denmark)

Biology

Adults are on wing from June to August in one generation.

The larvae feed on Festuca species.

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


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