Autographa jota (Linnaeus, 1758)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Noctuoidea → family Noctuidae → subfamily Plusiinae → tribe Plusiini → subtribe Plusiina → genus Autographa → species Autographa jota

Species name(s)

Autographa jota (Linnaeus, 1758) = Phalaena jota Linnaeus, 1758 = Phalaena protea Stoll, [1782] = Phalaena (Noctua) inscripta Esper, 1791 = Plusia percontationis Ochsenheimer, 1816 = Chrysodeixis aurigutta Hübner, [1821] = Plusia ancora Freyer, 1832 = Plusia bartholomaeii Ménétriés, 1859. [9, 10]

Plain Golden Y.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 6.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #3. Karelsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky*; #24. Gorno-Altaisky*.

* An asterisk denotes a region for which the species is listed as an migrant or information that requires additional checking.

Forewing length

18—20 mm.

Primary colors

Red, Orange, Brown/Gray/Black.

Flight time

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Larva lifespan

 					January 					February 					March 					April 					May 					June 					July 					August 					September 					October 					November 					December 			

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Ireland, 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].
Andorra, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Isles, France, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Ireland, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Latvia, Lithuania , Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway (mainland)Channel Islands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Sardinia, Northern Ireland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Finland, France (mainland), Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: East Caucasian, Gorno-Altaisk (?), The European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga, the Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Karelia, Mid-Volzhsky, South West Siberian (?) , Southern Urals. [3].
The range of A. jota is the southern part of Europe. [85].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

The length of the forewing is 2 cm, the color is orange-purple-brown, the characteristic feature is a silvery V-shaped spot. The hindwings are grey-brownish. A similar — looking species, Autographa pulchrina, has another small silvery spot next to the V-shaped one, and the main color of the forewings is darker. [85].

General info about Imago

Places of summer — warm slopes, forest edges and clearings, river banks. [85].

Imago lifespan

The time of summer is from mid-June to mid-August. [85].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Urtica and other low-growing plants. [28].
Травы. [85].

Larva lifespan

From the end of August to the end of May. [85].

Overwintering stage

Metalloid iota overwinters at the caterpillar stage. [85].

Subspecies of Autographa jota

Autographa jota anatolica (Schwingenschuss, 1938). [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Irina Nikulina, Andrey Ponomarev.

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