Agrotis vestigialis

Agrotis vestigialis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Agrotis
Species: A. vestigialis
Binomial name
Agrotis vestigialis
Hufnagel, 1766
Synonyms
  • Phalaena vestigialis
  • Scotia vestigialis
  • Rhyacia vestigialis

The Archer's Dart (Agrotis vestigialis) is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in most of the Palearctic ecozone from Ireland East, through to Russia, Siberia, the Altai mountains and the Amur region. Also in the Mediterranean area.It is absent from the North of Finland and Norway,

Male
Female

Description

For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.

The wingspan is 30–35 mm. Forewing greyish ochreous, with olive fuscous shading varied with whitish: stigmata large, outlined in black; claviform elongate, orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres in a pale ring; orbicular small, often conjoined to reniform; submarginal line preceded by black dentations; hindwing white, with brownish veins and margin; the female always darker, with the hindwing wholly brownish. — In the typical form the markings are distinct on a pale grey ground; — ab. sagittiferus Haw. differs only in having the ground dark fuscous; — ab. clavis Esp. is pale reddish ochreous; the forms in which the markings are more or less obsolete differ similarly in coloration; — thus ab. signata has a pale grey ground; — ab. trigonalis Esp. is a small fuscous form with the stigmata large and outer margin dark; — and ab. nigra Tutt is blackish fuscous with the course of the median vein pale; — in ab. lineolata Tutt the wedge-shaped markings, usually submarginal only, extend through to the outer margin.[1]

Biology

Adults are on wing from July to September depending on the location.

The larvae feed on Galium and Stellaria species.[2]

References

  1. ↑ 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
  2. ↑ "Robinson, G. S., P. R. Ackery, I. J. Kitching, G. W. Beccaloni & L. M. Hernández, 2010. HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. Natural History Museum, London.".

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