Epipsilia latens

Epipsilia latens
Epipsilia latens 11f
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Epipsilia
Species: E. latens
Binomial name
Epipsilia latens
(Hübner, [1809])
Synonyms
  • Noctua latens Hübner, [1809]
  • Epipsilia murina Freyer, 1841
  • Epipsilia latitans Guenée, 1852
  • Epipsilia obscura Schwingenschuss, 1923
  • Rhyacia (Agrotis) latens f. illuminata Turati, 1919
  • Epipsilia apennina Sohn-Rethel, 1929
  • Agrotis grisescens var. hyrcana Staudinger, 1899
  • Epipsilia pontica Draudt, 1936

Epipsilia latens is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in central Europe, northern Spain, the Apennines, northern Iran, Turkey, Armenia and the Caucasus.

Technical description and variation

The wingspan is 33–36 mm. Forewing dingy luteous grey, varying from pale to dark; in pale examples the outer and inner lines are sharply black; stigmata in all cases indistinct; hindwing of female fuscous, of male dull whitish with grey border; the veins and postmedian line grey.[1]

Biology

Adults are on wing from June to September.

Larva yellowish brown; dorsal and subdorsal lines pale, the latter bordered inwardly by a black line thickened at middle of each segment; lateral line conspicuously black; head yellowish brown, with two dark streaks. The larvae feed on Gramineae species.

Subspecies

  • Epipsilia latens latens (central Europe, northern Spain)
  • Epipsilia latens illuminata (Apennines)
  • Epipsilia latens hyrcana (northern Iran, Turkey, Armenia, Caucasus)

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


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