Lasionycta calberlai

Lasionycta calberlai is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in France[1] , Switzerland, Italy and Slovenia.

Lasionycta calberlai
17e
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Lasionycta
Species:
L. calberlai
Binomial name
Lasionycta calberlai
(Staudinger, 1883)
Synonyms
  • Clemathada calberlai (Staudinger, 1883)
  • Hadena calberlai Staudinger, 1883
  • Mamestra calberlae var. teriolensis Dannehl, 1925
  • Mamestra calberlai var. decrepita Dannehl, 1929
  • Hada calberlai

Description

The wingspan is 21–25 mm.Warren (1914) states calberlai Stgr. (17 e). Forewing dull greyish fuscous, with a faint brown tinge; median area darker; a short black streak from the base below cell; claviform stigma black-edged, continued as a black streak to outer line; upper stigmata of the ground colour, with paler rims; the cell brown black; submarginalline pale grey, not dentate; hindwing greyish fuscous. A small and obscure species confined to the Tyrol and the Campagna, Italy. Larva grey brown, darker on dorsum and between the segments; dorsalline pale, interrupted, with dark margins; lateral line white; spiracles black with white rings; feeds on Clematis vitalba. .[2]

Biology

The larvae feed on Clematis vitalba.

References
  1. Lepinet.fr
  2. 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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