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词条 Lithophane ornitopus
释义

  1. Technical description and variation

  2. Biology

  3. Subspecies

  4. References

  5. External links

{{Taxobox
| image = Lithophane ornitopus.jpg
| image_width = 220px
| image_caption =
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Arthropoda
| classis = Insecta
| ordo = Lepidoptera
| familia = Noctuidae
| genus = Lithophane
| species = L. ornitopus
| binomial = Lithophane ornitopus
| binomial_authority = (Hufnagel, 1766)
| synonyms =
  • Phalaena ornitopus Hufnagel, 1766
  • Lithophane pitzalisi Hartig, 1976
  • Noctua rizolitha Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775
  • Lithophane lactipennis Dadd, 1911

}}

Lithophane ornitopus, the grey shoulder-knot, is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in most of the Palearctic ecozone from Ireland east to Siberia.

Technical description and variation

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The wingspan is 32–38 mm. Forewing greywhite; a bifurcate black streak from base below cell; lines indistinct, pale with dotted edges; stigmata grey with partial black outlines and paler rings; the lower lobe of the reniform orange tinged; claviform sometimes connected by a black streak with outer line, and often a dark spot between the stigmata; submarginal line waved, white, preceded by dark marks; hindwing grey; the whiter forms are separated as ab. pallida Spul.[1]

Biology

Adults are on wing from late August to November and, after overwintering, again from the end of February to mid-May.

Larva bluish green dotted with white; dorsal and subdorsal lines white; spiracular line yellowish white. The larvae feed on various deciduous trees, but mainly Quercus species.[2] Larvae can be found from April to June. It overwinters as an adult.

Subspecies

  • Lithophane ornitopus ornitopus
  • Lithophane ornitopus pitzalisi Hartig, 1976 (Sardinia)

References

1. ^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
2. ^{{cite web|url= http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/research/projects/hostplants/ |title= Robinson, G. S., P. R. Ackery, I. J. Kitching, G. W. Beccaloni & L. M. Hernández, 2010. HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. Natural History Museum, London.}}

External links

{{Commons category|Lithophane ornitopus}}
  • [https://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?bf=2237 Grey shoulder-knot up UKmoths]
  • Funet Taxonomy
  • Fauna Europaea
  • Lepiforum.de
  • Lepiforum.nl {{nl}}
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5 : Lithophane (moth)|Moths of Europe|Insects of Europe|Insects of Turkey|Taxa named by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel

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