Hada plebeja
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H. plebeja
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The Shears (Hada plebeja) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Europe and across the Palearctic to Asia Minor, Armenia, Turkestan, Central Asia, Mongolia, Siberia.Also Kashmir.[1] [2]
Technical Description and variation
- See glossary for terms used
The wingspan is 30–35 mm. The length of the forewings is 14–17 mm. Forewing lilac-grey, suffused with olive fuscous, deepest in median area; claviform stigma small, black-edged, followed by a broad bidentate pale patch at base of vein 2; orbicular and reniform pale grey with white edges; marginal area dark; submarginal line preceded by black dentate markings: veins more or less grey-scaled; hindwing fuscous, paler basewards; the fringe pale; - leucostigma Haw. has the ground colour whiter; hilaris Zett. is a form of this in which the whitish orbicular and the pale blotch on vein 2 are confluent and form one long streak; ochrea Tutt is a form, common in Britain, in which the forewing is varied with yellow scales: - latenai Pierr. is a melanic mountain form from Switzerlandand the Hebrides.[3]
Biology
The moth flies from early June to early July.[4] Larva dark brown; dorsal and lateral lines pale; subdorsal lines formed of dark lunular blotches: spiracles black; head glossy black.The larvae feed on Smooth Hawksbeard, Hieracium pilosella , Taraxacum and Alfalfa.[5] preferring the roots.
References
- ↑ Colour Atlas of Siberian Lepidoptera
- ↑ Lepidoptera and their ecology
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Hada plebeja Funet.fi - Finland Centre for Science, retrieved on 11 October 2009
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- Lepiforum
- Fauna Europaea
- Funet Taxonomy
- Vlindernet (Dutch)
- waarneming.nl (Dutch)
- Lepidoptera of Belgium
- The Shears at UKmoths
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