Dichagyris renigera
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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

  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 Public Domain 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


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