Mythimna l-album (Linnaeus, 1767)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Noctuidae → subfamily Noctuinae → tribe Leucaniini → genus Mythimna → subgenus Hyphilare → species Mythimna l-album

Species name(s)

Mythimna (Hyphilare) l-album (Linnaeus, 1767) = Phalaena (Noctua) l-album Linnaeus, 1767 = Leucania penicillata Moore, 1881 = Mythimna (Foehstia) valeriae Beck, 2007 = Aletia l-album = Mythimna (Hyphilare) l-album. [9, 10]

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:7592

Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 3.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #12. Nizhnevolzhsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #19. Sredneobsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky.

Forewing length

15—18 mm.

Primary colors

Yellow, Brown/Gray/Black.

Flight time

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Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Crete, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, the Soviet Union - The European part of Turkey - European part of France, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden and 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, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Cyprus, Corsica, Crete, Latvia, Lithuania?, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, the Netherlands, the Channel Islands, Poland, Portugal (mainland), Romania, Russia, Sardinia, North Aegean Islands, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey (European part), Ukraine, Finland, France (mainland), Croatia, Cycladic, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden,Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, Gorno-Altaisk, the European Central Black Earth, Central European, Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Lower Volga, Mid-Volzhsky, Sredneobskaya, South West Siberian, South Ural. [3].
Бабочка широко распространена в Европе. [85].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Длина переднего крыла: 1,5—1,8 см. Цвет: бледно-желтый. В центре переднего крыла совки эль-белое находится белое пятно в виде буквы L. У самцов имеется характерный пучок черных волосков на брюшке. [85].

General info about Imago

Местообитания: одичавшие сады и заливные луга, поймы ручьев. [85].

Imago lifespan

Летает с мая по июль и с августа по октябрь. [85].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Gramineae. [28].
Дикие злаки. [85].

Larva lifespan

Первое поколение гусениц Mythimna l-album живет в октябре—мае, второе — в июле. [85].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Evgeny Komarov, Sergey Novitckiy.

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