Lacanobia contigua
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| Lacanobia contigua Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775
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Lacanobia contigua, the beautiful brocade, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found throughout temperate regions of the Palearctic ecozone from Ireland East to Siberia and Japan.
Technical description and variation
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The wingspan is 36–42 mm.Forewing pale ashgrey, suffused with olive brown ; a black streak from base below cell, with a pale costal blotch above it ; claviform stigma dark, followed by an ochreous white patch at base of vein 2; orbicular stigma whitish, with grey centre, forming with the pale patch beyond claviform and a large pale blotch on inner, margin beyond outer line a kind of oblique pale bar; reniform with lower lobe blackish, followed by a fulvous tinge; submarginal line strongly dentate, the teeth on 3 and 4 reaching margin; hindwing whitish grey, the veins and termen darker. The form subcontigua Ev. is a dark suffused insect, without the pale patches, from the Ural Mts. in Russia, but similar examples occur in other parts; - ab. amurensis Spul. from Amurland is more delicate in the outline of wing, reddish grey in colour, with the markings less distinct. [1]
Biology
The moth flies from May to July depending on the location.
Larva dull yellowish green, mottled with orange and reddish brown; dorsum with a row of dark V-shaped markings; spiracular line reddish brown.The larva mainly feed on a wide variety of various trees, bushes and herbaceous plants:Betulaceae, Umbelliferae, Ranunculaceae Cruciferae, Salicaceae,Dennstaedtiaceae, Crassulaceae, Urticaceae, Ericaceae etc. .[2]
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