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词条 Mythimna litoralis
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  1. Technical description and variation

  2. References

  3. External links

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| name = Shore wainscot
| image = Mythimna litoralis1.jpg
| image2 = Mythimna litoralis.jpg
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Arthropoda
| classis = Insecta
| ordo = Lepidoptera
| familia = Noctuidae
| genus = Mythimna
| species = M. litoralis
| binomial = Mythimna litoralis
| binomial_authority = (Curtis, 1827)
| synonyms =
}}

Mythimna litoralis, the shore wainscot, is a moth of the family Noctuidae.

A strictly coastal species,[1] it is found in Europe and Morocco in areas close to the shore. The wingspan is 36–42 mm. It is an ochre-colored moth having a distinctive white streak bordered with dark fine lines along the length of the forewing.

Technical description and variation

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The wingspan is 36–42 mm. Forewing smooth pale ochreous suffused with brown except along costa;median vein white, outlined with fuscous; the nervules towards termen whitish; the terminal interspaces with brown streaks; hindwing pure white. A coast species found in Britain, Denmark, N. Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, and Spain.[2]

Larva reddish yellow; dorsal line fine, pale with dark edges; subdorsal lines blackish; spiracles black on a pale lateral stripe; head and thoracic plate yellowish. The larvae are monophagous, feeding exclusively on marram (Ammophila arenaria) leaves, a plant that grows on dunes along the shoreline.[3]

References

1. ^[https://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?bf=2201 Shore Wainscot Mythimna litoralis - UKmoths]
2. ^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
3. ^{{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|Mythimna litoralis}}
  • [https://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?id=444 Shore wainscot at UKmoths]
  • Funet Taxonomy
  • Fauna Europaea
  • Lepiforum.de
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5 : Mythimna (moth)|Moths described in 1827|Moths of Africa|Moths of Europe|Taxa named by John Curtis

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