Autographa pulchrina
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Noctuidae |
| Genus: | Autographa |
| Species: | A. pulchrina
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| Binomial name | |
| Autographa pulchrina (Haworth, 1809)
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Autographa pulchrina (beautiful golden Y) is a moth of the family Noctuoidea. It is found in Europe, east to the Urals and the Caucasus, as well as in the Khentii Mountains (Mongolia) and East Siberia.
Description
[edit | edit source]The wingspan is 35–40 mm. The length of the forewings is 17–20 mm. Forewing fuscous purplish, with the dark suffusion stronger than in iota; inner and outer lines more or less marked with pale yellowish, edged with dark brown;the inner preceded by a brown fascia; median area below middle ferruginous brown, with an orange suffusion beneath externally; reniform stigma partly outlined with pale golden; the two golden spots as in iota; submarginal line suffusedly edged with olive brown, except above anal angle; hindwing as in iota; in the ab. percontatrix Auriv. the two golden spots are confluent; the form gammoides Speyer, from the Baltic provinces and North and Central Germany, is darker, with the purplish tint of forewings stronger and the metallic spots united; — buraetica Stgr. is also a darker, brownish grey form, with stronger golden tinge and conjoined spots, from the Kentei Mts. and E. Siberia [now species Autographa buraetica ] ; in the ab. pallida ab. nov. [Warren] from the Engadine the ground colour is whitish.[1]
The caterpillars are green and have yellowish white, slightly wavy lateral stripes. The head is green and blackish bordered. The pupa is black.
Biology
[edit | edit source]The moth flies in one or two generations in from May to June and August to September in case of a second generation.[1]
The larvae feed on low plants such as nettle, honeysuckle, Stachys sylvatica and Jacobaea vulgaris.[2]
Notes
[edit | edit source]- ^ The flight season refers to Belgium and The Netherlands. This may vary in other parts of the range.
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ 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
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External links
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- Beautiful golden Y at UKmoths
- Funet Taxonomy
- Fauna Europaea
- Lepiforum.de
- Vlindernet.nl (in Dutch)
- waarneming.nl (in Dutch)
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