Noctuidae : Plusiinae
Lempke's Gold Spot
PLUSIA putnami Lempke, 1966
Lempke's Gold Spot
PLUSIA putnami Lempke, 1966
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Life Cycle Guide
Description
Wingspan: 34 - 36mm
Worldwide Distribution: Europe - ( Excluding - Azores,Balearic Is.,Canary Is.,Channel Is.,Corsica,Crete,Croatia,Cyprus,Greece,Hungary,Ireland,
Luxembourg,Madeira,Malta,Portugal,N Russia,Sardinia,Sicily,Slovakia,Slovenia & Spain)
UK Distribution: East Anglian Fens - Frequent : northern England - very local : mainland Scotland Herbrides,Orkney,Shetland - widespread : Isle of Man - confirmed on various sites : Ireland - 1 record Co Cork
UK Conservation Status -
Habitat: Fens : Marshes : River-banks : Upland Grassland
Similar Species -
Pupa: Pupates in strong silken cocoon spun up against the food plant
Overwinters as: Larva
Observations: This moth is very rare in the south and is separated from the Gold Spot by being slightly smaller, forewing orange brown, with the rear median silver spot, smaller and more rounded,the subapical silver streak longer and thinner and by genitalia dissection.
Darker cross lines are clear on median area and area adjacent to subapical silver streak.
Subspecies gracilis (Lempke, 1966) is found througout most of Europe and has a type locality in the Netherlands whereas the nominate subspecies putnami (Lempke, 1966) is North America and has type locality of New York.
Feeds on flowers from dusk and is attracted to light.
Worldwide Distribution: Europe - ( Excluding - Azores,Balearic Is.,Canary Is.,Channel Is.,Corsica,Crete,Croatia,Cyprus,Greece,Hungary,Ireland,
Luxembourg,Madeira,Malta,Portugal,N Russia,Sardinia,Sicily,Slovakia,Slovenia & Spain)
UK Distribution: East Anglian Fens - Frequent : northern England - very local : mainland Scotland Herbrides,Orkney,Shetland - widespread : Isle of Man - confirmed on various sites : Ireland - 1 record Co Cork
UK Conservation Status -
- Local = 101 - 300 10km squares
- Least Concern
- Autographa putnami Lempke, 1966
- Phalaena festucae Linnaeus, 1758
- Netherlands, de Peel - P.p. gracilis (Lempke , 1966)
Habitat: Fens : Marshes : River-banks : Upland Grassland
Similar Species -
- Gold Spot - Plusia festucae - (Linnaeus, 1758
Pupa: Pupates in strong silken cocoon spun up against the food plant
Overwinters as: Larva
Observations: This moth is very rare in the south and is separated from the Gold Spot by being slightly smaller, forewing orange brown, with the rear median silver spot, smaller and more rounded,the subapical silver streak longer and thinner and by genitalia dissection.
Darker cross lines are clear on median area and area adjacent to subapical silver streak.
Subspecies gracilis (Lempke, 1966) is found througout most of Europe and has a type locality in the Netherlands whereas the nominate subspecies putnami (Lempke, 1966) is North America and has type locality of New York.
Feeds on flowers from dusk and is attracted to light.
Subspecies
P.p. gracilis (Lempke , 1966) - Europe
P.p. gracilis (Lempke , 1966) - Europe
Larval Food Plants Worldwide
Note - Plants hyperlinked in red below take the visitor to the relevant plant page on"Plants for a Future" website where further information like photos,physical characteristics,habitats,edible uses,medicinal uses,cultivation,propagation,range,height etc. are clearly listed.
Plant Families - in bold red below takes the visitor to the relevant "Lepi-plants" page where other butterflies & moths using the plants below are listed.
Plant Families - in bold red below takes the visitor to the relevant "Lepi-plants" page where other butterflies & moths using the plants below are listed.
- Poaceae - Gramineae - True Grasses Family
- Calamagrostis canescens - Purple Small Reed
- Calamagrostis epigejos - Wood-small Reed
- Glyceria maxima - Great Manna Grass
- Holcus lanatus - Yorkshire-fog
- Oryza sativa - Asian Rice
- Phleum pratense - Timothy-grass
- Note - Larvae also feed on the following plant families
- Poaceae - Gramineae - Festuca - Tufted Grasses/Juncus - Rushes/Sparganium - Bur Reeds
- Poaceae - Gramineae - Festuca - Tufted Grasses/Juncus - Rushes/Sparganium - Bur Reeds
- Note - Larvae also feed on the following plant families
Taxonomy
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Animalia
Eumetozoa Arthropoda Hexapoda Insecta Lepidoptera Noctuoidea Noctuidae Plusiinae Plusiini PLUSIA Ochsenheimer 1816 Plusia putnami Lempke, 1966 - Phalaena festucae Linnaeus, 1758 - AUTOGRAPHA putnami Lempke, 1966 - Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences V1-2 - Title Page : p146 - 147 : Plate 1V - n.2 - Netherlands, de Peel - P.p. gracilis (Lempke , 1966) - P.p.putnami (Lempke, 1966) - Nominate subspecies - Newfoundland, Labrador - Pennsylvania, S.Canada - Alaska, Washington - N.California, Rocky Mountains P.p. festata Graeser , (1890) - Far East, Altai Mts., Japan P.p.barbara (Warren , 1913) - Morocco P.p. gracilis (Lempke , 1966) - Europe |