Euclidia fortalitium (Noctuidae). Or about one wrong Noctuid moth

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PG18, 03.08.2007 18:09

Scoops are the most numerous and, it seems, the most heterogeneous family of lepidoptera. There are 35,000 species of them described in the world. How many are still open… Among the scoops and the world's largest butterfly (with a wingspan of up to 33 cm), and many small species that do not exceed a centimeter. Like owls and feathered scoops, Lepidopteran scoops are overwhelmingly active at night, hiding in shelters during the day. There are very few diurnal scoop butterflies (an exception: inhabitants in the polar regions, where there are no warm nights at all...). In the middle zone, these are primarily representatives of the genus Euclidia – the gray clover scoop and the brown clover scoop, which are found in meadow areas in the spring. In the very east of European-European Russia, another species is found locally-Euclidia fortalitium (Tauscher, 1809) (the Russian name has not yet been invented), which is mainly characteristic of Asian steppes and semi-deserts.
Unlike our other clover scoops, imagos are found in two generations - in May and July. They also fly at night, attracted by light.

Stony steppe on the bank of the Ural River, about 25 km south of Kizilskoye settlement (Chelyabinsk region), May 20, 2007

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