Haemerosia renalis

Haemerosia renalis is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It was described by Jacob Hübner in 1813. It is found in Spain, France, Italy, Sicily, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Greece.[1] It has also been recorded from the Near East.

Haemerosia renalis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Haemerosia
Species:
H. renalis
Binomial name
Haemerosia renalis
(Hübner, 1813)
Synonyms
  • Pyralis renalis Hübner, [1813]
  • Haemerosia renifera Boisduval, 1840

Description

Warren states.R. renigera Hbn. (= dumosa Donz.[Dichagyris renigera Hübner, [1808]]) (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 coloration from the European; they have been separated by Staudinger as ab. turana Stgr.[Dichagyris forficula ssp. turana Staudinger, 1891], which is pale ocbreous, with the grey tinge less conspicuous: ab. intermedia Stgr. (13 e),[Dichagyris forficula Eversmann, 1851] which is dark violaceous grey with markings obscure; ab. erubescens Stgr.[Dichagyris erubescens Staudinger, 1891,in which the ochreous deepens into fulvous or reddish, and the markings become distinct; and ab. funebris [Dichagyris renigera Hübner, [1808]}Stgr.(13 e), which is leaden grey; but erubescens and intermedia may well form a species apart, as Staudinger himself suggested. [2]

Biology

The larvae feed on the flowers and seeds of Chondrilla juncea, Lactuca sativa and Lactuca serriola.[3]

References
  1. Fauna Europaea
  2. 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 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa


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