Mesapamea secalis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Noctuidae → subfamily Noctuinae → tribe Apameini → subtribe Apameina → genus Mesapamea → species Mesapamea secalis

Species name(s)

Mesapamea secalis (Linnaeus, 1758) = Mesapamea didyma Esper, 1788 = Phalaena (Noctua) secalis Linnaeus, 1758 = Phalaena (Noctua) didyma Esper, 1788 = Noctua lamda Vieweg, 1790 = Phalaena (Noctua) lancea Esper, 1791 = Phalaena (Noctua) leucostigma Esper, 1791 = Noctua furca Haworth, 1809 = Noctua i-niger Haworth, 1809 = Noctua lugens Haworth, 1809 = Noctua nova Haworth, 1809 = Noctua rava Haworth, 1809 = Noctua secalina Hübner, [1809] = Parastichtis vilis Hübner, [1821]. [9, 10, 85]

Common Rustic.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:7313

Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #3. Karelsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #6. Evropeisky Severo-Vostochny; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #19. Sredneobsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #26. Predbaikalsky.

Primary colors

Brown/Gray/Black.

Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Mesapamea didyma. [85].

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sardinia, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - the European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Andorra, the Balearic Islands, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Dodecanese Islands, Ireland?, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Cyprus, Corsica, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway (mainland), the Channel Islands, Poland, Portugal (mainland), Russia, Romania, Sardinia, Northern Ireland, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Faroe Islands,Finland, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, Gorno-Altaisk, the European North-East, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga, the Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Karelia, Prealtay, of Baikal, Middle-Volga, Mid-Ural,Sredneobskaya, South West Siberian, South Ural. [3].
Ареал Mesapamea secalis: умеренная Европа, высоты до 2000 м. [85].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Переднее крыло 1,5 см длины. Окраска может сильно варьировать — у одних особей она грязно-беловатая, у других серая, у третьих светло- или темно-коричневая, черная. Почковидное пятно всегда светлое. [85].

General info about Imago

Места лёта: леса и поля, поляны и сады. [85].

Imago lifespan

Время: с конца июня до конца августа. [85].

General info about Larva

Окукливание идет в почве. [85].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Gramineae. [28].
Гусеницы пашенной совки питаются злаками, а потому могут наносить заметный ущерб хозяйству. [85].

Larva lifespan

Гусеницы живут с сентября по май. [85].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Vitaly Gumenuk, Zoran Bozovic.

Text data: Peter Khramov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

References

[1] O. Karsholt, J. Razowski (eds.), 1996. The Lepidoptera of Europe: a distributional checklist
[3] Каталог чешуекрылых (Lepidoptera) России. Под ред. С. Ю. Синёва. СПб.; М.: Товарищество научных изданий КМК, 2008
[9] Tree of Life (funet.fi), 2012
[10] de Jong, Y.S.D.M. (ed.) (2011) Fauna Europaea version 2.4 (faunaeur.org)
[28] Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa (leps.it), 2012
[85] Lepidoptera species catalogue, Lepidoptera.ru, 2015