Polychrysia moneta

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Polychrysia moneta
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P. moneta
Binomial name
Polychrysia moneta
(Fabricius, 1787)

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The Golden Plusia (Polychrysia moneta) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in the Palearctic ecozone.(Europe, Asia Minor, Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Caucasus, North-West Iran).

Technical Description and variation

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The wingspan is 32–37 mm.Forewing pale golden, diffusely tinged in median area with brown and sprinkled with black scales; the veins brown; the median shade conspicuously dark brown, thick, angled in middle: lines brown, double; the inner acutely angled on subcostal, below middle inwardly curved; outer line lunulate dentate; basal area flaked with golden scales; a pale golden apical blotch, cut and edged below by the brown submarginal line, which is rarely plain below middle; orbicular stigma large, oblique, horseshoe-shaped, with broad silvery outline and gold and brown centre, coalescing with a similar but inverted mark on vein 2; reniform hardly traceable; hindwing shining fuscous;the fringe pale.[1]

Biology

The moth flies from May to October depending on the location.

Larva dull dark green,black spotted, living when young in the heart of the central shoots; later, with dark dorsal vessel, limited by several whitish lines and a white lateral line.The larvae feed on Delphinium, Artemisia absinthium and Artemisia vulgaris.[2]

References

  1. Seitz, A. Ed., 1914 Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde, Verlag Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart Band 3: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen eulenartigen Nachtfalter, 1914
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