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词条 Mythimna l-album
释义

  1. Technical description and variation

  2. References

  3. External links

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| image = Mythimna l-album.jpg
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| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Arthropoda
| classis = Insecta
| ordo = Lepidoptera
| familia = Noctuidae
| genus = Mythimna
| species = M. l-album
| binomial = Mythimna l-album
| binomial_authority = (Linnaeus, 1767)
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Mythimna l-album, the L-album wainscot, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is distributed throughout Europe, but is also found in North Africa from Morocco to Tunisia and in the Levant, then east across the Palearctic to Central Asia. It is not found in the far north of the Arabian Peninsula. The limit in the north varies. It occurs on the northern edge of the range as a migrant. From southern England, then Denmark and southern Scandinavia, the north limit cuts across the Baltic Sea across the Baltic states then south of Moscow to the Urals.

Technical description and variation

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The wingspan is 30–35 mm. The length of the forewings varies from 15 to 16 mm. Forewing greyish ochreous, tinged with olive brown through cell towards apex and along outer margin below apex; outer half of median vein white, shortly hooked at end; veins 3 and 4 whitish: a black streak from base below cell; veins pale outlined with dark; the oblique streak from apex with black marks between veins on each side; a pale submarginal band below middle; hindwing grey,becoming fuscous towards termen.

Larva yellowish brown; dorsal line fine, paler, with black edges; subdorsal line black, edged above with pale; below it some faint dark lines; spiracles black.[1]

The species occurs mainly in July and again in September and October.{{ref|flight_season}}.

The species survives winter as a caterpillar when it feeds on various: Brachypodium pinnatum, Bromus inermis,

Bromus sterilis, Dactylis glomerata, Deschampsia flexuosa, Elymus repens, Festuca,

Festuca arundinacea, Festuca ovina, Phleum pratense, Poa annua, Poa nemoralis, Poa pratensis. Also on Rumex, Taraxacum, Plantago.

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
  1. {{Note|flight_season}} The flight season refers to the British Isles. This may vary in other parts of the range.
    • {{nl}} Paul Waring en Martin Townsend, Nachtvlinders, veldgids met alle in Nederland en België voorkomende soorten, Baarn, 2006.

External links

  • [https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/mythimna-l-album/ L-album Wainscot up UKmoths]
  • Lepiforum.de
  • Vlindernet.nl {{nl}}
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7 : Mythimna (moth)|Moths described in 1767|Moths of Africa|Moths of Asia|Moths of Europe|Moths of the Middle East|Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus

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