Dichagyris renigera

Dichagyris renigera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Noctuidae
Genus:	Dichagyris
Species:	D. renigera
Binomial name
	Dichagyris renigera; (Hübner, 1808)
Synonyms
	Noctua renigera Hübner, [1808]; Ochropleura renigera; Lycophotia renigera var. contermina Corti, 1930; Agrotis renigera caerulescens Wagner, 1931 (preocc.); Polia dumosa Donzel, 1837; Agrotis renigera var. funebris Staudinger, [1892]; Agrotis renigera ochridana Thurner, 1936; Agrotis (Rhyacia) renigera var. funestissima Bubacek, 1926; Agrotis (Rhyacia) renigera hispanicola Schwingenschuss, 1962; Ochropleura (Dichagyris) renigera nigrescentella Leraut, 1980; Dichagyris murciensis Calle, 1983; Dichagyris nigrescens Kitt, 1925 (preocc.); Agrotis renigera argentina Caradja, 1930;

Dichagyris renigera is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in South- and Southeast-Europe, Armenia, Caucasus and Turkey.

Description

Warren (1914) states R. renigera Hbn. (= dumosa Donz.) (13 e). Forewing greyish ochreous, thickly dusted with fuscous or grey, especially the space between outer and submarginal lines; markings obscure; lines marked by dark spots on costa; stigmata faintly yellowish; hindwing greyish fuscous. A south European species, found in Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Carinthia, Bosnia, and Hungary; also in Armenia, Asia Minor, Syria, Persia, Turkestan, and Mongolia: the Asiatic forms differ in colouration from the European; they have been separated by Staudinger as ab. turana Stgr.[syn Dichagyris devota (Christoph, 1884), which is pale ochreous, with the grey tinge less conspicuous: ab. intermedia Stgr. [syn Dichagyris forficula (Eversmann, 1851)] (13 e), which is dark violaceous grey with markings obscure; ab. erubescens Stgr., in which the ochreous deepens into fulvous or reddish, and the markings become distinct; and ab. funebris Stgr (13 e), which is leaden grey; but erubescens [species Dichagyris erubescens (Staudinger, [1892] and intermedia [syn Dichagyris forficula (Eversmann, 1851)] may well form a species apart, as Staudinger himself suggested. ^[1]

Subspecies

Dichagyris renigera renigera (Alps)
Dichagyris renigera funetissima (Bubacek, 1926) (Spain, Pyrenees)
Dichagyris renigera argentina (Caradja, 1930)

Biology

There is one generation per year. The moth occurs from early June to early August, visits sugar and comes to light.

References

^ 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.

Reading

Michael Fibiger: Noctuidae Europaeae Volume 1, Entomological Press, Søro 1990, ISBN 87-89430-01-8, p. 121–123

External links

[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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