Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Noctuidae Scientific name Lithophane leautieri | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Lithophane Rank Species | |
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Similar Lithophane, Lunar underwing, Conistra ligula, Lithophane ornitopus, Agrochola macilenta | ||
Lithophane leautieri, the Blair's shoulder-knot, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Europe. It originated from the area surrounding the Mediterranean Sea, but gradually moved north.
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Technical description and variation
The wingspan is 39–44 mm.Forewing pale grey, dusted with olive grey; lines strongly dentate, but much obscured, marked by short oblique costal streaks; upper stigmata ill-defined, but united at their base by a long black line; the reniform with fulvous in lower half; claviform elongate, black-edged,united by a short black streak with outer line; a well-marked black streak from base on submedian fold;submarginal line indicated only by black dentate marks preceding it, of which the two on the folds are longest; fringe mottled dark and light grey; hindwing pale brownish grey, darker towards termen; ab. sabinae Geyer is rather smaller, blue-grey, more distinctly marked, especially the median shade and submarginal teeth; reniform stigma with hardly any fulvous in it; the two black lines on submedian fold hardly visible.
Biology
The moth flies from September to mid-November.[1]
Larva dark green, dorsal and subdorsal lines white, segmentally swollen and partially interrupted; spiracular line yellowish white.The larvae feed on various cypress species.