Epipsilia grisescens
Mountain Meadow Bodeneule ( Epipsilia grisescens )
The Mountain Meadows Bodeneule ( Epipsilia grisescens ) is a butterfly (moth ) from the family of cutworms ( Noctuidae ).
- 6.1 Notes and references
- 6.2 Literature
Features
The moths have a wingspan of 24-34 millimeters. The thorax is gray. The forewings have a light gray, yellow-gray or gray-brown staining. Note the strongly toothed, dark but simple transverse lines. Ring and kidney blemish and a means shadows may be present, but also missing or heavily blurred. Zapf blemish missing. The whitish hind wings show a blurry wavy line in the middle and back are slightly darkened the brim.
Adults caterpillars are gray and yellow have three bright ridge lines, most of which are limited both side inward on each segment of the crescent-shaped spots. The pupa is reddish brown.
Similar Species
The species is very similar Epipsilia latens, but more rounded forewings and usually a darker color indicates. Other equipped with a gray ground color ways, for example Agrotis simplonia, Euxoa birivia, Rhyacia helvetina, the Ashen Erdeule ( Agrotis cinerea), the light gray Erdeule ( Euxoa decora ), and Ashen Bodeneule ( Xestia ashworthii ssp. Candelarum ) differ by less distinctive transverse lines.
Geographical distribution and habitat
Due nacheiszeitlicher warming two independent populations of this cooler climate loving Art In the southern parts Fennoskandinaviens and Denmark were the ssp.septentrionalis home that is listed there from sea level to about 400 m above sea level. In the mountainous and mountainous regions of northern Spain, the Alps, the Apennines, the southern Balkan Mountains ( to the north of Greece ) and the Caucasus, the Nominatunterart occurs grisescens. In Germany the species is shown next to the Alps and the Black Forest and the Swabian Alb and from Bavaria. In the Alps, it rises to over 2800 meters in height. She lives there on rocky, little overgrown grassy slopes and rocky pastures often above the tree line.
Way of life
The largely nocturnal moth mountain meadow - Bodeneule fly from June to September in one generation a year. They are also occasionally observed during the day. In the south, they insert a summer break. They come to artificial light sources, and visit the bait as well as blossoms. The caterpillars are found from September. They hide during the day and feed at night on various grasses. The caterpillars overwinter and pupate mainly in May of the following year.
Endangering
In Germany, the mountain meadows Bodeneule comes in Bavaria, where it is not at risk, as well as in Baden- Württemberg, where it is guided on the red list of threatened species as a sort of undetermined hazard ago.
System
There are two subspecies:
- Epipsilia grisescens grisescens (Fabricius, 1794), slightly larger wingspan, darker hind wings
- Epipsilia grisescens septentrionalis Fibiger, 1993, slightly smaller wingspan, through the narrow forewings and hind wings lighter with a clear, dark hem band.