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].
Mesapamea secalis range: temperate Europe, altitudes up to 2000 m. [85].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

The front wing is 1.5 cm long. The color can vary greatly — in some individuals it is dirty-whitish, in others it is gray, in others it is light or dark brown, black. The reniform spot is always light. [85].

General info about Imago

Places of summer: forests and fields, glades and gardens. [85].

Imago lifespan

Time: from the end of June to the end of August. [85].

General info about Larva

Pupation takes place in the soil. [85].

Larva food plants / other food objects

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

Larva lifespan

Caterpillars live from September to May. [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