Noctuidae : Heliothinae
Shoulder-striped Clover
HELIOTHIS maritima warneckei Boursin 1964
Shoulder-striped Clover
HELIOTHIS maritima warneckei Boursin 1964
Kind permission - © Tim Norriss
Life Cycle Guide
Description
Wingspan: c30-36mm
Worldwide Distribution: Europe - Not north & E Russia,Portugal,Norway,Ireland & some Mediterranean Islands : Turkey : Central Asia : China : Japan : Korea : N India : Pakistan
UK Distribution: Local on Dorset Heaths,Hampshire - some of the New Forest Heaths,Surrey - recorded single location,Lizard - Cornwall recorded on small heath @ Goonhilly Downs,other dotted records in Cornwall,Devon - reported from Haldon Moor (MGBI)
UK Conservation Status -
Type Locality -
Habitat: Damp acid heath where larval food plant flourishes - Cross-leaved Heath
Similar Species -
Pupa: Larval stage last from end July to end September before pupating in a cocoon beneath the soil for overwintering
Overwinters as: Pupa
Observations: The Shoulder-striped Clover can be distinguished from the Marbled Clover by the darker median band which is inward facing with this moth and horizontal with the similar species.Acid Heather is the required habitat for this moth where its larval food plant the Cross-leaved Heath is found.The Marbled Clover is much less likely to be found on this acid heathland.
The moth is olive brown with dark shoulder-stripes in the basal area,a dark inward facing median band and darker apial streaks and a clearly defined black dotted subterminal fascia.
Black spots in varying degrees is found over the forewing.
The moth found in Britain is ssp.warneckei Boursin 1964 and is endemic to Britain.
One female of the ssp bulgaria was caught in the Thanet,Kent and was considered to be an immigrant by Boursin,1964
With its specialised habitat the moth is considered rare and as such is covered under the red data book priority pre 1994.
Worldwide Distribution: Europe - Not north & E Russia,Portugal,Norway,Ireland & some Mediterranean Islands : Turkey : Central Asia : China : Japan : Korea : N India : Pakistan
UK Distribution: Local on Dorset Heaths,Hampshire - some of the New Forest Heaths,Surrey - recorded single location,Lizard - Cornwall recorded on small heath @ Goonhilly Downs,other dotted records in Cornwall,Devon - reported from Haldon Moor (MGBI)
UK Conservation Status -
- NERC S.41 : 2008 (England) - Species "of principle importance for the purpose of conserving biodiversity
- BAP : 2007 - Priority Species
- RedList - GB - Pre94 - (RDB 3 - Rare) < 15 x 10km squares
- Vagrant/Accidental - H.b bulgarica - sensu auctt.nec (Draudt,1938)
- Not clear
- Heliothis maritima Graslin,1855
Type Locality -
- Sweden - location unknown
Habitat: Damp acid heath where larval food plant flourishes - Cross-leaved Heath
Similar Species -
- Marbled Clover - Heliothis viriplaca (Hufnagel, 1766)
Pupa: Larval stage last from end July to end September before pupating in a cocoon beneath the soil for overwintering
Overwinters as: Pupa
Observations: The Shoulder-striped Clover can be distinguished from the Marbled Clover by the darker median band which is inward facing with this moth and horizontal with the similar species.Acid Heather is the required habitat for this moth where its larval food plant the Cross-leaved Heath is found.The Marbled Clover is much less likely to be found on this acid heathland.
The moth is olive brown with dark shoulder-stripes in the basal area,a dark inward facing median band and darker apial streaks and a clearly defined black dotted subterminal fascia.
Black spots in varying degrees is found over the forewing.
The moth found in Britain is ssp.warneckei Boursin 1964 and is endemic to Britain.
One female of the ssp bulgaria was caught in the Thanet,Kent and was considered to be an immigrant by Boursin,1964
With its specialised habitat the moth is considered rare and as such is covered under the red data book priority pre 1994.
Subspecies
H. m. warneckei Boursin 1964 - Endemic to Britain
Shoulder-striped clover and Marbled Clover shown below for comparison
H. m. warneckei Boursin 1964 - Endemic to Britain
Shoulder-striped clover and Marbled Clover shown below for comparison
Ova
Larva
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.
- Caryophyllaceae - Pink and Carnation Family
- Dianthus caryophyllus - Carnation
- Spergula arvensis - Corn Spurrey
- Ericaceae - Heather Family
- Erica tetralix - Bog Heather - Cross-leaved Heath
- Erica tetralix - Bog Heather - Cross-leaved Heath
- Fabaceae - Leguminosea - The Pulse - Bean - Pea - Legume Family
- Medicago sativa - Alfalfa
- Melilotus alba - Sweet Clover
- Nartheciaceae - Asphodel Family
- Narthecium ossifragum - Bog asphodel
- Poaceae - Gramineae - True Grasses Family
- Phragmites australis - Common Reed
- Typhaceae - Reedmace Family
- Typha latifolia - Reedmace - Bulrush
- Note - Larvae also feed on the following plant families
- Caryophyllaceae - Spergularia - Sea Spurrey's
- Ericaceae - Calluna - Heather Family/ Erica - Heather
- Caryophyllaceae - Spergularia - Sea Spurrey's
- Note - Larvae also feed on the following plant families
- Typha latifolia - Reedmace - Bulrush
Larval Food Plants
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Taxonomy
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Kingdom:
Subkingdom: Phylum: Subphylum: Class: Order: Superfamily: Family: Subfamily: Genus: Accepted Species Name: Type Species - HELIOTHIS: Original Species Name: Genus Names: Nominotypical subspecies: Literary Ref: Type Location: Subspecies: |
Animalia
Eumetozoa Arthropoda Hexapoda Insecta Lepidoptera Noctuoidea Noctuidae Heliothinae HELIOTHIS Ochsenheimer,1816 Heliothis maritima Graslin,1855 - Phalaena dipsacea (Linnaeus, 1767) - HELIOTHIS maritima Graslin,1855 - HELIOTHIS maritima (Graslin, 1855 = Chazaria Moore 1881 = Rhodocleptria Hampson 1903 - Heliothis maritima maritima Graslin, 1855 - Graslin ,1855 - Annales de la Sociéte Entemologique de France : Sér.3 : t.3 : Title Page : p. 65 - 74 : ( pl.7 - No V, fig 1 à 7 ) - Helios - Sweden - location unknown - H.m.warneckei Boursin,1964 - endemic to Britain H.m.maritima Graslin, 1855 - nominate subspecies H.m.bulgarica sensu auctt.nec (Draudt,1938) - Bulgaria & Yugoslavia - a single female captured in a lucerne field in Thanet Kent was determined by Boursin as an immigrant |