Capsula sparganii

Capsula sparganii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Capsula
Species: C. sparganii
Binomial name
Capsula sparganii
(Esper, 1790)
Synonyms
  • Archanara sparganii
  • Phalaena sparganii
  • Noctua sparganii

The Webb's Wainscot (Capsula sparganii), formerly known as Archanara sparganii, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Europe, Central Asia, from Southern Siberia to Manchuria, Korea, Turkey, Syria and Iran.

Mounted

Technical Description and variation

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

The wingspan is 32–40 mm. Forewing light yellowish ochreous flushed with rufous, especially in the male; veins paler, and sprinkled with dark fuscous, especially the median vein; lines represented by series of black spots, the outer only distinct and complete; reniform stigma marked by two or more blackish dots at its lower end; a series of black terminal dots; hindwing pale dull yellowish, more or less suffused with fuscous, except towards inner and outer margins. The species is variable both in colour and clearness of markings; thus ab. obsoleta Tutt is an ochreous form dusted with grey and without any reddish or yellowish admixture; ab. rufescens Tutt has the forewing more or less strongly reddish and the hindwing suffused with fuscous to outer line; while ab. bipunctata Tutt has a black dash above median vein, representing the base of an otherwise unmarked orbicular stigma, as the black crescent with its pale centre at end of cell represents the reniform; this form is independent, of colour.[1]

Biology

The moth flies in one generation from July to October and are attracted to light.

Larva slender, pale yellow green; subdorsal and lateral lines darker; head and thoracic plate pale brown. The larvae feed in the stems of Iris pseudacorus, typha and similar watery plants.

Subspecies

Notes

  1. ^ The flight season refers to Belgium and The Netherlands. This may vary in other parts of the range.

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
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