Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Noctuidae Scientific name Dasypolia templi | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Dasypolia Rank Species | |
 | ||
Similar Dasypolia, Mesoligia literosa, Celaena haworthii, Aporophyla lutulenta, Agrochola litura | ||
Dasypolia templi, the brindled ochre, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in northern Europe up to central Siberia and more to the south in mountainous areas.
Contents
Description
The length of the forewings is 18–23 mm. Forewing pale yellow grey in the male, simply pale grey in the female, densely dusted with darker: the lines diffusely darker still, outwardly edged with pale ground colour; median area often darker, the reniform, and sometimes the orbicular, showing paler; submarginal line pale, waved; fringe chequered, grey and yellowish; hindwing a little paler, with cellspot, outer, and sometimes a submarginal line greyer; — ab. alpina Ruehl. is an alpine form, with the ground colour more bluish grey, the stigmata picked out with chalk-white, and the outer line of hindwing more strongly marked.
Biology
Larva yellowish grey, tinged dorsally with red; when fullgrown, fleshcolour, with large tubercles; head, thoracic, and anal plates brown. The larva feed on Aegopodium podagraria, Angelica silvestris, Angelica archangelica v. litoralis, Levisticum officinale, Heracleum sphondylium and Heracleum laciniatum.
Subspecies
The following subspecies are recognised: