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Mouse moth - Wikipedia

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Mouse moth

Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Noctuidae
Genus:	Amphipyra
Species:	A. tragopoginis
Binomial name
*Amphipyra tragopoginis* (Clerck, 1759)

The mouse moth (Amphipyra tragopoginis) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is a widespread species with a Holarctic distribution.

Distribution

Europe (except the extreme north, and not occurring in the south of Spain, Sicily, or the Balkans); also in Armenia, Asia Minor, Syria, Iran, Western Siberia, Kashmir (extending thence into Punjab). Recently introduced in Canada and North America.

This is a rather drab but distinctive species. The forewings are uniform dark brown with three blackish spots arranged in a triangle. The hindwings are buffish, darker towards the margins. The wingspan is 32–40 mm. The common name derives from the species' habit of scuttling away on foot when disturbed rather than flying. Despite this, it can fly strongly and is attracted to light, sugar and nectar-rich flowers. In the British Isles, the adult is active from July to September.

Description

Forewing dull brown, dusted with paler scales, varying from pale to blackish brown; submarginal line only visible, indicated by a paler tinge preceded by a darker shade; orbicular stigma a blackish dot; reniform represented by two, one above the other, at end of cell; hindwing rufous fuscous, paler towards base; — turcomana Stgr. is pale ashy grey, with no trace of submarginal line, and the stigmata very faint and more or less obsolete; the hindwing also much paler, dull whitish, becoming grey towards termen; (this central Asiatic form is probably a good species: the forewing has the apex more decidedly prominent [A. t. subspecies turcomana Staudinger, 1888]); — the blacker forms are separated as ab. nigrescens Spul.^[1]

The larva is green dorsal and subdorsal lines yellowish or white lines and feeds on a wide variety of plants. The species overwinters as an egg.

Ecology

Recorded food plants of the mouse moth include monkshood, chervil, dogbane, columbine, wormwood, bellflower, eastern redbud, hawthorn, fireweed, fennel, strawberry, bedstraw, geranium, Scots lovage, toadflax, cow-wheat, monkeyflower, tobacco, parsley, plantain, poplar, Prunus, oak, redcurrant, rose, cloudberry, sorrel, willow, salad burnet, nettle, indica, and grape.^[2]

References

^ 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
^ Robinson, G. S., et al. 2010. HOSTS – A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. Natural History Museum, London.

Chinery, M. Collins Guide to the Insects of Britain and Western Europe. 1986. Reprinted 1991.
Skinner, B. Colour Identification Guide to Moths of the British Isles. 1984

External links

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Taxon identifiers

Amphipyra tragopoginis

Wikidata: Q1258034
ADW: Amphipyra_tragopoginis
BAMONA: Amphipyra-tragopoginis
BioLib: 53638
BOLD: 20919
BugGuide: 13301
EoL: 478154
EUNIS: 311216
Fauna Europaea: 449282
Fauna Europaea (new): 0d6664a6-4d3f-478d-b830-4bd80fb4da76
GBIF: 1766210
iNaturalist: 127564
IRMNG: 10864909
ITIS: 188955
LepIndex: 262195
LoB: 5395
MaBENA: AmphiTrago
NatureServe: 2.120229
NBN: NBNSYS0000006395
NCBI: 689058
Observation.org: 9142
Open Tree of Life: 891509

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