Callopistria latreillei

Callopistria latreillei, Latreille's Latin, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species can be found in the Palaearctic ecozone, most parts of Europe, Asia and in Africa, from Egypt to South Africa.[1] The habitat consists of rocky limestone slopes with deciduous woodland.

Callopistria latreillei
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Noctuidae
Genus:	Callopistria
Species:	C. latreillei
Binomial name
Callopistria latreillei (Duponchel, 1827)
Synonyms
Noctua latreillei Duponchel, 1827 Callopistria latreillei rakoto Viette, 1965 Callopistria rechingeri (Koutsaftikis, 1973) Erastria roseitelum Walker, 1858

Technical description and variation

For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.

E. latreillei Dup. (= quieta Tr. nec Hbn., roseitelum Walk.) (44 f). Forewing whitish, suffused with pale and dark grey, and in parts with blackish fuscous; inner and outer lines black edged with white; a prominent white spot before inner line on submedian fold; stigmata dark grey, with interrupted pale outlines; the reniform with a white dot beyond lower outer angle; submarginal line powdery white, interrupted by the olive or pinkish veins, and preceded by a pink wedge-shaped mark on vein 6; a lunulate white line close before termen; fringe olive yellow, chequered with white; hindwing fuscous, paler towards base in the male. Larva redbrown, with a black dorsal triangle broadly edged with yellow on each segment; lateral lines yellowy with a black spot on each segment.[2] The wingspan is about 25 millimetres (0.98 in).

Biology

There are two generations per year with adults on wing from May to October.[3]

The larvae have been recorded feeding on Ceterach officinarum, Cochlearia species and Adiantum capillus-veneris.[4]

References

1. De Prins, J.; De Prins, W. (2017). "Callopistria latreillei (Duponchel, 1827)". Afromoths. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
2. Warren. W. in 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 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
3. UKMoths
4. Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa

• (in French) Duponchel, 1827. In Godart, J. B. & Duponchel, P. A. J., Histoire naturelle des Lépidoptères ou Papillons de France. 7.

External links

• Lepiforum.de