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Erebidae : Boletobiinae

Beautiful Marbled

EUBLEMMA purpurina ([Denis & Schiffermüller] ,1775}
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Kind permission - © Tim Norriss
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Description
Wingspan: 26 - 30mm
Worldwide Distribution: Europe - ( Excluding - Azores,Balearic Is.,Belgium,Canary Is.,Channel Is.,Corsica,Crete, Cyrus,Denmark,Estonia, Ireland, Latvia,Luxembourg,Lithuania,Madeira,Malta,Norway,Sardinia,Sweden and the Netherlands)    
UK Distribution: Very rare immigrant to southern England - less than 10 records
UK Conservation Status -
  • Migrant
European Conservation Status -
  • Least Concern
Original Species Name -
  • Noctua purpurina ([Denis & Schiffermüller] ,1775}
Type Species - Eublemma
  • Noctua amoena Hübner, 1803
Type Locality -
  • Austria - near Vienna
Flight Period: June - August - univoltine
Habitat: Open,dry Grassland
Similar Species -
  • Purple Marbled - Eublemma ostrina - (Hübner, [1808])
Observations: Although first appeared in southern England in Dorset 2001 this moth was only identified three years later from a set specimen,the same year when eight moths were recorded of this previously unrecorded species.
Although similar to poor specimens of Purple Marbled f. carthami the postmedial line which runs from dorsum to the apex and divides the pink purple element of this moth does not appear in the similar species.
No evidence of breeding in the UK
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Animalia
Eumetozoa
Arthropoda
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Lepidoptera
Noctuoidea
Erebidae
Boletobiinae
EUBLEMMA Hübner 1821
Eublemma purpurina ([Denis & Schiffermüller] ,1775}
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Noctua amoena Hübner, 1803
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NOCTUA purpurina ([Denis & Schiffermüller] ,1775}
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EUBLEMMA Hübner, 1821
= Honeyania Berio 1991
= Coccidiphaga Spuler 1907
= Glossodice Berio 1991
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Ankündung eines systematischen Werkes von den Schmetterlingen der Wienergegend : Title Page : p.88 - n.9
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Austria-Near Vienna