Pyrrhia victorina

Pyrrhia victorina is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Slovenia, former Yugoslavia (including Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and North Macedonia) and Daghestan.

Pyrrhia victorina
46g, h
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Pyrrhia
Species:
P. victorina
Binomial name
Pyrrhia victorina
(Sodoffsky, 1849)
Synonyms
  • Heliothis victorina Sodoffsky, 1849
  • Periphanes victorina (Sodoffsky, 1849)

Description from Seitz

Forewing sulphur yellow: the veins and lines deep rosy purple; a rosy sinuous median shade passing over the discocellular; an outer and a submarginal line, the latter not reaching costa: a fine dark purple terminal line; fringe sulphur yellow; hindwing suffused with blackish fuscous, with darker veins and submarginal band, wholly blackish in female; the fringe white; occurring in S. E. Europe only, Servia, Bulgaria, S. Russia, the Caucasus, Armenia, Asia Minor, and N. Kurdistan; the form described as prazanoffzkyi Guen. (46 h) from Amasia is much paler in both wings, with all the rosy tints much reduced : the underside pale instead of purplish fuscous. — Larva dull green or violet red dorsal line very faint; subdorsal pale, slender, interrupted at the segmental incisions; lateral lines broader, the reddish spiracles placed on their upper margin; tubercles black; head black brown; thoracic plate yellowish: feeding on Dictamnus and Salvia.[1]

References

  1. Seitz A., 1914 Gross-Schmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes. Band 3: Die eulenartigen Nachtfalter. - 1-511 S., Taf.1-75, Alfred Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart.Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.


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