Caradrina kadenii

Caradrina kadenii (Clancy's rustic) is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae. It originates from Southern and Central Europe, Asia Minor and southern Russia but in the 21st century it has extended its range to the North.

Clancy's rustic
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Caradrina
Species:
C. kadenii
Binomial name
Caradrina kadenii
(Freyer, 1836)
Synonyms
  • Platyperigea kadenii
  • Caradrina (Platyperigea) kadenii

Technical description and variation
For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.

Forewing luteous with a slight brownish tinge; the inner and outer lines indistinct, marked by black vein dots, and black costal spots; subterminal line interrupted, formed by whitish striae with rufous dentate marks internally; the termen with black striae; the orbicular a rufous dot; the reniform a rufous lunule with whitish clots round it; hindwing pure white in male with some blackish striae along termen, dirty whitish in female. Larva greyish brown, with whitish dorsal and dark subdorsal and lateral lines; the head and thoracic plate dark brown. [1] The wingspan is ca. 30 mm. The length of the forewings is 12–15 mm.

Biology

The moth flies from May to October, depending on the location.

The larvae feed on various low-growing herbaceous plants.

Subspecies
  • Caradrina kadenii kadenii
  • Caradrina kadenii insularis (Sardinia)

References
  1. Warren. W. in 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 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.


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