Orthosia miniosa
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Orthosia miniosa, the blossom underwing, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Michael Denis and Ignaz Schiffermüller in 1775. It is found in Europe.
Technical description and variation
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The wingspan is 31–36 mm. The length of the forewings is 15–17 mm. Forewing sandy rufous, black speckled, median area generally deeper rufous: lines browner, edged with pale, the outer dentate lunulate; stigmata with yellowish outlines and grey centres: submarginal line rufous and yellowish: hindwing white, rosy tinged along the termen; cellspot, outer line, and veins sometimes well-marked. Form rubricosa Esper is the form in which the red of the median area is most emphasised.
Form pallida Tutt is greyish ochreous, with hardly a vestige of rufous: in virgata Tutt, while the basal and marginal areas are grey, the median space is rufous.Seitz, A. Ed., 1914 Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde, Verlag Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart Band 3: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen eulenartigen Nachtfalter, 1914
Biology
The moth flies in one generation from the end of March to mid-May{{ref|flight season}}.
Larva pale or dark blue grey; dorsal and subdorsal lines yellow; the sides black with a yellow spiracular line, marked with a white spot on each segment; head whitish with coarse blackish mottling. The larvae feed on various trees and shrubs, mainly oak.{{cite web |last1=Robinson |first1=Gaden S. |last2=Ackery |first2=Phillip R. |last3=Kitching |first3=Ian J. |last4=Beccaloni |first4=George W. |last5=Hernández |first5=Luis M. |date=2010 |url=https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/hostplants |title=Search the database - introduction and help |website=HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants |publisher=Natural History Museum, London}}
Notes
- {{Note|flight season}}The flight season refers to Belgium and the Netherlands. This may vary in other parts of the range.
References
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External links
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- {{cite web |last=Kimber |first=Ian |url=https://ukmoths.org.uk/species/orthosia-miniosa |title=73.243 BF2183 Blossom Underwing Orthosia miniosa ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775) |website=UKMoths |access-date=23 October 2019}}
- {{cite web |last=Savela |first=Markku |date=July 27, 2019 |url=https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/noctuidae/hadeninae/orthosia/#miniosa |title=Orthosia miniosa ([Schiffermüller], 1775) |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |access-date=October 23, 2019}} Taxonomy
- [http://www.lepiforum.de/cgi-bin/lepiwiki.pl?Orthosia_Miniosa Lepiforum e. V.] {{in lang|de}}
- [http://www.vlindernet.nl/vlindersoort.php?vlinderid=615 De Vlinderstichting] {{in lang|nl}}
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Category:Moths described in 1775