Alvaradoia disjecta
Alvaradoia disjecta
Alvaradoia disjecta is a butterfly (moth ) from the family of cutworms ( Noctuidae ).
- 5.1 Notes and references
- 5.2 Literature
Features
Butterfly
The wingspan of the butterfly is 20 to 28 millimeters. The ground color of the forewings is light brown to chestnut brown tints. Inner and outer transverse line, wave and hemline are white and stand out clearly from the background. Ring and kidney blemish are outlined in black brown and white. The fringes on the fore wings are alternately spotted brown and white. The visually marked hind wings are gray-brown. The abdomen is very narrow.
Caterpillar
Adults caterpillars are yellow colored green. They have a white dorsal line, broken white lines side back and side stripes as well as numerous white spots, which are distributed over the entire body length.
Similar Species
The very similar species
- Alvaradoia numerica ( Boisduval, 1840), wingspan 23 to 30 mm, in Corsica and Sardinia
- Alvaradoia deserti ( Oberthuer, 1918), a wingspan of 25 to 30 millimeters in northwest Africa
- Alvaradoia ornatula (Christoph, 1887), wingspan 18 to 22 mm, in the west of Turkmenistan
Can not be confused due to their different geographical occurrence.
Geographical distribution and habitat
Alvaradoia disjecta occurs in eastern Spain and south-eastern France and settled warm, dry places where the food plant of the caterpillar grows.
Way of life
Main flight time of the largely nocturnal moths are the months of June and July. Whether copies of the end of August or beginning of September, a second generation have been found belong, needs clarification. At night they like to visit artificial light sources. The caterpillars feed on the leaves of gray Heiligenkraut ( Santolina chamaecyparissus ).
Taxonomy
The first description was made by Boisduval by A. numerica in 1840 referred to a copy of Corsica and the species name was occasionally used incorrectly applied to a moth of the Spanish mainland. More confusion within the genus arose because of the individual authors various forms, geographical races, synonyms or subspecies have been named. Only Zilli, July and Fibiger placed the genus in 2009 in the separate allopatric species Alvaradoia disjecta, Alvaradoia numerica, Alvaradoia deserti and Alvaradoia ornatula.