Oncocera semirubella
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| image = Oncocera semirubella01.jpg
| image_caption = O. semirubella from Eure-et-Loir, France
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| taxon = Oncocera semirubella
| authority = (Scopoli, 1763){{cite web|url=http://globiz.pyraloidea.org/Pages/Reports/TaxonReport.aspx |title=GlobIZ search|website=Global Information System on Pyraloidea |access-date=2012-03-06}}
| synonyms = *Phalaena semirubella Scopoli, 1763
- Oncocera semirubella mediterranea Roesler, 1980
- Phalaena carnella Linnaeus, 1767
}}
Oncocera semirubella, the rosy-striped knot-horn, is a small moth of the family Pyralidae.
Distribution
It is found in European regions, including the British Isles, and East Asia (e.g. China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan).
Description
The wingspan is 26–30 mm. The forewings are light crimson or pink, sometimes much mixed with grey or dark grey, a whitish, greyish-ochreous, or grey costal streak; a broad ochreous-yellowish dorsal suffusion. Hindwings grey, slightly rosy-tinged.
The larva is bronzy-blackish, with ten indistinct greenish lines; a whitish lateral spot on 3, including a black dot; head and plate of 2 black : amongst web on Lotus.Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London [https://archive.org/details/handbookofbritis00meyr/page/n7 pdf] {{PD-notice}} Keys and description[https://lepiforum.org/wiki/page/Oncocera_semirubella lepiforum.de includes images]{{PD-notice}}Parsons, M. Clancey, C. 2023 A Guide to the Pyralid and Crambid Moths of Britain and Ireland Atropos Publishing ISBN 9780955108648
The adult moth flies in one generation by the end of June to August.{{ref|flight_season}} It is easily disturbed on short grassland, flies from dusk onwards, and is attracted to light and sugar.
(MHNT) Oncocera semirubella - Kiskunfélegyhàza Hongrie - male dorsal.jpg|Oncocera semirubella♂
(MHNT) Oncocera semirubella - Kiskunfélegyhàza Hongrie - male ventral.jpg|Oncocera semirubella♂ △
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Buckler W The larvæ of the British butterflies and moths Plate CLIX.jpg|Figs.1, 1a, 1b, 1 c larvae in various stages 1d pupa
Biology
The larvae feed on bird's-foot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus), white clover, Ononis species, horseshoe vetch and Medicago species.
Notes
- {{Note|flight_season}}The flight season refers to Belgium and the Netherlands; this may vary in other parts of its range.
References
{{Reflist|refs=
{{Cite book
| author = 方红
| title = 中国东北草原昆虫名录
| publisher = Beijing Book Co. Inc.
| year = 2014
| isbn = 9787538189162
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=gj_gDwAAQBAJ&q=Oncocera+semirubella+China&pg=PT104
}}
{{Cite web
| title = アカマダラメイガ Oncocera semirubella (Scopoli, 1763)
| website = An Identification Guide of Japanese Moths Compiled by Everyone
| url = http://www.jpmoth.org/Pyralidae/Phycitinae/Oncocera_semirubella.html
}}
{{Cite journal
| author = Jin-Taek Lim
| author2 = Seong-jun Gang
| author3 = Sei-Woong Choi
| title = Study on Moth Diversity in islands and land borders, in the southwest area of Korean Peninsula
| journal = Journal of Korean Nature
| volume = 3
| issue = 1
| pages = 11–13
| year = 2010
| doi = 10.1016/S1976-8648(14)60002-5
| doi-access =
}}
{{Cite web
| title = 物種名錄 - Phycitinae 斑螟蛾亞科
| website = DearLep 台灣產蝶蛾圖鑑
| url = http://dearlep.tw/list.html#Phycitinae
}}
}}
External links
{{Commons category-inline|Oncocera semirubella|Oncocera semirubella}}
- [https://waarneming.nl/species/20530/ waarneming.nl] {{in lang|nl}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070516011111/http://webh01.ua.ac.be/vve/Checklists/Lepidoptera/Pyralidae/Osemirubella.htm Lepidoptera of Belgium]
- [https://ukmoths.org.uk/species/oncocera-semirubella/ UKmoths]
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Category:Moths described in 1763
Category:Taxa named by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli
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