Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Noctuidae Scientific name Mythimna pudorina | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Mythimna Rank Species | |
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Similar Mythimna straminea, Mythimna conigera, Mythimna ferrago, Leucania comma, Mythimna impura | ||
Mythimna pudorina, the striped wainscot, is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in the Palearctic ecozone (Europe, all of Russia to Japan). Also Armenia, Asia Minor and eastern Siberia.
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Technical description and variation
The wingspan is 35–38 mm. Forewing flesh coloured ochreous densely dusted with grey atoms; the veins slightly paler; the upper half of cell and of submedian interval often paler without dusting, the streak in cell continued to margin; sometimes a darker streak in lower half of cell also continued to termen; hindwing dark grey, with pale fringe; -impudens Hbn. is a less marked grey form, without reddish tinge;- rufescens Tutt is a rare British form, bright rosy red, with pale grey dusting; striata Tutt darker, with the grey intervals blackish.
Biology
The moth flies from June to August depending on the location.
Larva dirty yellowish white; dorsal line white; subdorsal also white, edged above with black; 3 fine whitish lateral lines and a narrow grey stripe containing the black spiracles.The larvae feed on various grasses, such as purple moor grass, Phragmites and reed canary grass.