Noctuidae : Xyleninae
Rosy Minor
LITOLIGIA literosa (Haworth, 1809)
Rosy Minor
LITOLIGIA literosa (Haworth, 1809)
Life Cycle Guide
Description
Wingspan: 25 - 30mm
Worldwide Distribution: Europe - less (Bulgaria,Luxembourg,N Russia & some Mediterranean Isles) : NW Africa to Central Asia
UK Distribution: Common throughout most of Great Britain : Channel Isles - Jersey - local / Guernsey - rare
UK Conservation Status -
Habitat: Grasslands : Fens : Gardens : Coastal Cliff : Sand-dunes
Similar Species -
Spiracles are black,prothoracic plate brown edged darker and a blackish brown head.
Pupa: Pupates in a cocoon among plant material or just below soil
Overwinters as: Larva
Observations: Although common over much of Great Britain the moth is a species of conservation concern under the UK biodiversity action plan.
The forewing is a mixture of hues in pink,reddish brown and grey and is extremely variable with specimens sometimes being fawn.
Cross lines tend to be bow shaped although the basal cross directly beyong the reniform stigmata line straightens out towards the dorsum,being a good pointer into identifying this moth.
Moth is attracted to light,sugar and flowers.
Worldwide Distribution: Europe - less (Bulgaria,Luxembourg,N Russia & some Mediterranean Isles) : NW Africa to Central Asia
UK Distribution: Common throughout most of Great Britain : Channel Isles - Jersey - local / Guernsey - rare
UK Conservation Status -
- Common = >300 10Km Squares
- NERC S.41 : 2008 (England) & NERC S.42 : 2009 (Wales) - Species "of principle importance for the purpose of conserving biodiversity
- Northern Ireland - Priority Species : 2010
- BAP : 2007 - Priority Species
- Least Concern
- Noctua literosa Haworth, 1809
- Noctua literosa Haworth, 1809
- England - county of Norfolk
Habitat: Grasslands : Fens : Gardens : Coastal Cliff : Sand-dunes
Similar Species -
- Cloaked Minor - Mesoligia furuncula - ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
Spiracles are black,prothoracic plate brown edged darker and a blackish brown head.
Pupa: Pupates in a cocoon among plant material or just below soil
Overwinters as: Larva
Observations: Although common over much of Great Britain the moth is a species of conservation concern under the UK biodiversity action plan.
The forewing is a mixture of hues in pink,reddish brown and grey and is extremely variable with specimens sometimes being fawn.
Cross lines tend to be bow shaped although the basal cross directly beyong the reniform stigmata line straightens out towards the dorsum,being a good pointer into identifying this moth.
Moth is attracted to light,sugar and flowers.
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.
- Cyperaceae - Sedge Family
- Carex flacca - Blue Sedge,Glaucous Sedge
- Poaceae - Gramineae - True Grasses Family
- Ammophila arenaria - Marram Grass
- Avena sativa - Oats
- Calamagrostis arundinacea - Feather Reed Grass
- Dactylis glomerata - Cock's-foot - Orchard grass
- Festuca ovina - Sheep's Fescue
- Hordeum distichon - Two-Rowed Barley
- Leymus arenarius - Lyme Grass
- Secale cereale - Rye
- Triticum aestivum - Bread Wheat
- Iridaceae - Iris Family
- Iris foetidissima - Stinking Gladwin, Stinking iris, Gladwin Iris
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Taxonomy
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Subkingdom: Phylum: Subphylum: Class: Order: Superfamily: Family: Subfamily: Tribe: Genus: Accepted Species Name: Type Species - LITOLIGIA: Original Species Name: Species Names: Literary Ref: Type Locality: |
Animalia
Eumetozoa Arthropoda Hexapoda Insecta Lepidoptera Noctuoidea Noctuidae Xyleninae Apameini LITOLIGIA Beck, 1999 Litoligia literosa (Haworth, 1809) - Noctua literosa Haworth, 1809 - NOCTUA literosa Haworth, 1809 = Mesoligia literosa Haworth, 1809 = Noctua literosa Haworth, 1809 = Noctua erratricula Hübner, [1813] = Apamea suffuruncula Treitschke, 1825 = Apamea onychina Herrich-Schäffer, 1856 = Mesoligia literosa minorasia Rezbanyai-Reser, 1998 = Mesoligia literosa siciliana Rezbanyai-Reser, 1998 - Lepidoptera Britannica (3): Title Page : p.213 - n.144 - England - county of Norfolk |