Erebidae : Boletobiinae
Small Marbled
EUBLEMMA parva (Hübner,[1808])
Small Marbled
EUBLEMMA parva (Hübner,[1808])
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Life Cycle Guide
Description
Wingspan: 16-18mm
Worldwide Distribution: Europe - less Estonia,Latvia,Lithuania,Luxembourg,Norway,Poland,central/north/north-west Russia & Sweden : North Africa : Middle East : Turkey : Caucasus : Transcaucasia : Iraq : Iran : Afghanistan : Pakistan : NW.India
UK Distribution: Immigrant normally recorded along southern coasts but have been noted as far north as southern Scotland. Also recorded in Channel Isles,Isle of Man,northern England and Irish republic
UK Conservation Status -
Habitat: Open and disturbed habitats
Similar Species -
Pupa: Pupates in cocoon beneath flower heads
Observations: This small moth is an immigrant, normally recorded on the south coast, although has been recorded as far north as southern Scotland.
The moth has a creamy white forewing with a central cross line which is white suffused brown on the basal side with another cross line towards the terminal end which is shaped like a question mark on each wing.There are brown patches near the dorsum and a dark almost black apial band or streak.
The Purple Marbled is larger than this moth and lacks the central cross line and oftem has distinctive purple streaks.
Moth is attracted to flowers of the host plant.
Worldwide Distribution: Europe - less Estonia,Latvia,Lithuania,Luxembourg,Norway,Poland,central/north/north-west Russia & Sweden : North Africa : Middle East : Turkey : Caucasus : Transcaucasia : Iraq : Iran : Afghanistan : Pakistan : NW.India
UK Distribution: Immigrant normally recorded along southern coasts but have been noted as far north as southern Scotland. Also recorded in Channel Isles,Isle of Man,northern England and Irish republic
UK Conservation Status -
- Migrant
- Least Concern
- Noctua parva (Hübner,[1808])
- Noctua amoena Hübner, 1803
- Europe
Habitat: Open and disturbed habitats
Similar Species -
- Purple Marbled - Eublemma ostrina - (Hübner, [1808])
- Scarce Marbled - Eublemma minutata - (Fabricius, 1794)
Pupa: Pupates in cocoon beneath flower heads
Observations: This small moth is an immigrant, normally recorded on the south coast, although has been recorded as far north as southern Scotland.
The moth has a creamy white forewing with a central cross line which is white suffused brown on the basal side with another cross line towards the terminal end which is shaped like a question mark on each wing.There are brown patches near the dorsum and a dark almost black apial band or streak.
The Purple Marbled is larger than this moth and lacks the central cross line and oftem has distinctive purple streaks.
Moth is attracted to flowers of the host plant.
Photo Gallery
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
- Asteraceae - Compositae - Aster-Daisy - Sunflower Family
- Blumea balsamifera - Sambong
- Carthamus tinctorius - Safflower
- Centaurea calcitrapa - Common Star Thistle, Red star-thistle
- Dittrichia viscosa - False Yellowhead
- Inula conyza - Ploughman's Spikenard
- Inula montbretiana - No Common Name
- Inula montana - Arnica Fleabane
- Inula viscosa - Sticky Inula
- Pulicaria dysenterica - Common Fleabane
Larval Food Plants
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Taxonomy
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Animalia
Eumetozoa Arthropoda Hexapoda Insecta Lepidoptera Noctuoidea Erebidae Boletobiinae EUBLEMMA Hübner 1821 Eublemma parva (Hübner,[1808]) - Noctua amoena Hübner, 1803 - NOCTUA parva (Hübner,[1808]) = Micra chalybea Swinhoe, 1884 - EUBLEMMA Hübner, 1821 = Honeyania Berio 1991 = Coccidiphaga Spuler 1907 = Glossodice Berio 1991 - Sammlung europäischer Schmetterlinge / errichtet von Jacob Hübner in Augsburg. By Hübner, Jacob, 1761-1826 : Lepidoptera 1V : Noctua 11. : pl.77 - f. 356 - Europe |