Ctenoplusia accentifera

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Ctenoplusia accentifera

Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Noctuidae
Genus:	Ctenoplusia
Species:	C. accentifera
Binomial name
*Ctenoplusia accentifera* (Lefèbvre, 1827)
Synonyms
Plusia accentifera Plusia l-aureum Ctenoplusia hieroglyphica Agrapha accentifera

Ctenoplusia accentifera is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in South-Western Europe, Greece, Africa, the Near East and Asia Minor.

Technical description and variation

P. accentifera Lef Forewing dull pinkish grey dusted with darker, and with irregular olive brown patches; lines pale; inconspicuous; the inner oblique outwards to median vein, then waved inwards, followed by brown patches; outer line lunulate, between two brown shades, interrupted below middle by a large brown blotch; a brown blotch from apex, a triangular one below middle of termen, and some small patches along subterminal line, which bears a black white-edged tooth between veins 2 and 3; the mark below median inconspicuous, yellowish grey, laterally finely edged with silvery, oblique and parallel; hindwing brownish, with dark outer line and broad smoky fuscous border. Larva green, with white dorsal and double white subdorsal lines; spiracular white, less conspicuous in front, yellower behind; tubercles black with long hairs.^[1] The wingspan is about 25 mm.

Biology

The larvae feed on Mentha, Coleus and Cichorium species.

References

^ Warren. W. in 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 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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Taxon identifiers
Ctenoplusia accentifera	Wikidata: Q5191698 AfroMoths: CTENACCE BioLib: 53412 EoL: 552078 EPPO: CTNUAC EUNIS: 309365 Fauna Europaea: 449535 Fauna Europaea (new): 5a828312-3f60-4811-bdac-f24fa0396343 GBIF: 1785361 iNaturalist: 483542 IRMNG: 10865541 LepIndex: 280656 MaBENA: CtenoAccen NBN: NBNSYS0000006536 Observation.org: 151891 Open Tree of Life: 3199039

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