Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Noctuidae Scientific name Diarsia brunnea | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Diarsia Rank Species | |
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Similar Diarsia, Ingrailed clay, Double square‑spot, Small square‑spot, Anaplectoides prasina | ||
Diarsia brunnea, the purple clay, is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in most of Europe, east to Transcaucasia, the Caucasus, central Asia, Siberia, the Kuriles, Amur, Ussuri, Sakhalin, Korea, Japan, Tibet and China.
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Description
The wingspan is 35–38 mm. Forewing pinkish or purplish plumcolour; the costal half with a fulvous and yellow tinge; cell deep olive brown; claviform marked by a dark spot at its end; orbicular oblong, of the ground colour; reniform outlined or filled with ochreous; hindwing luteous fuscous; cilia pink
Adults are on wing from July to August.
Larva dark brown; dorsal and subdorsal lines pale, lateral lines whitish; a row of pale yellow dark-edged oblique stripes, and a yellow stripe across segment 11. The larvae feed on a wide range of herbaceous plants and shrubs, including Rumex species (including Rumex acetosella), Dryopteris filix-mas, Luzula sylvatica, Deschampsia flexuosa, Brachypodium sylvaticum, Vaccinium myrtillus, Vaccinium uliginosum, Prunus spinosa, Primula, Rubus, Urtica, Salix and Betula.
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