Rank Species | Genus Aporophyla Order Butterflies and moths | |
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Similar Aporophyla, Butterflies and moths, Agrochola macilenta, Conistra ligula, Lunar underwing | ||
The Black Rustic (Aporophyla nigra) is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from North Africa, through southern and central Europe to Anatolia, in the north it is found up to Scotland and southern Norway. It is also found in the Caucasus, in Israel and Lebanon.
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Description
The wingspan is 40–48 mm. Forewing deep black, the outer area beyond outer line often appearing brown; the inner and outer lines and the edges of stigmata deeper black; outer edge of reniform marked with yellowish spots; subterminal line rarely visible; hindwing in male white,sometimes with veins and termen clouded with fuscous, in female smoky grey-brown, more whitish towards base; — ab. seileri Fuchs includes the intenser black forms without any trace of brown.
Biology
Adults are on wing in September and October and sometimes also in December and January.
Larva yellow green, with 3 well-marked red dorsal lines and a similar coloured lateral line; spiracles white; or green with the dorsal lines confluent, brownred, divided finely by white; the brownred subdorsal and spiracular lines confluent into a broad band, with a yellow red-edged streak below it. The larvae feed on various plants, including Poaceae, Trifolium, Rumex, Sanguisorba minor and Genista.
