Standfussiana lucernea

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Northern rustic


Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Noctuidae
Genus:	Standfussiana
Species:	S. lucernea
Binomial name
*Standfussiana lucernea* (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
Phalaena lucernea Linnaeus, 1758

Standfussiana lucernea, the northern rustic, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found from the Iberian Peninsula, Italy and Greece in southern Europe, north through most of the continent up to Fennoscandia west to Ireland and Iceland.

Technical description and variation

The wingspan is 36–46 mm. Forewing pale grey, with a green flush; lines black defined by pale grey; broad dark median and submarginal shades; orbicular stigma grey, pale-edged, generally obsolete; reniform a dark lunule; fringe grey; hindwing fuscous, darker towards termen; fringe white; the male is generally blacker than the female. The form from Scotland, to which Stephens gave the name renigera is blackish grey, much darker than European examples. cataleuca Boisd. has the dark median shade prominent.^[1]

Adults are on wing from July to August.

Larva blackish, with obscure markings; a subdorsal row of blackish dentate marks containing pale spots behind them. The larvae feed on various grasses and low plants including Sedum. Other recorded food plants include Arenaria, Campanula, Cerastium, Primula, Stellaria and Saxifraga species.^[2]

A mountain species, it is found in the Alps, Apennines, Carpathians and Balkan Mountains.

Subspecies

Standfussiana lucernea lucernea
Standfussiana lucernea cataleuca
Standfussiana lucernea arguta
Standfussiana lucernea pescona
Standfussiana lucernea illyrica

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., 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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Taxon identifiers
Standfussiana lucernea	Wikidata: Q1377545 BioLib: 54480 BOLD: 266430 CoL: 4ZHN6 EoL: 412807 Fauna Europaea: 448871 Fauna Europaea (new): 7c5857ef-5ac4-452b-9a47-97eafeae4d68 GBIF: 1778517 iNaturalist: 483402 IRMNG: 10300394 LepIndex: 248939 NBN: NBNSYS0000006190 NCBI: 988158 Observation.org: 155189 Open Tree of Life: 183632

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