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Noctuidae : Noctuinae

Green Arches

ANAPLECTOIDES prasina ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
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Kind permission - © Tim Norriss
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Description
Wingspan: 43-53mm
Worldwide Distribution: Europe - excluding (Azores,Balearis Is.,Canary Is.,Corsica,Crete,Cyprus,Madeira,Malta,Poertugal,S Russia,Sardinia & Sicily) : Siberia : Armenia : Caucasus : C.Asia : Mongolia : China : Tibet : Korea : Japan : S.Canada : Washington : Oregon : N.Utah : New Mexico : New Jersey : Ohio : North Carolina
UK Distribution: Great Britain & Ireland - common throughout but not in Outer Hebrides,Orkney & Shetland : Isle of Man - local : Channel Isles - rare
UK Conservation Status -
  • Common = > 300 10km squares
European Conservation Status -
  • Least Concern
Original Species Name -
  • Phalaena (Noctua) prasina ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
Type Species - Anaplectoides
  • Eurois pressus Grote, 1874
Type Locality -
  • Germany, Sachsen
Flight Period: Mid May - early August - univoltine
Habitat: Broadleaved Woodland
Similar Species -
  • None
Larva: The 47mm final instar larva is various shades of brown with a distinct thin yellowish dorsal line and faint subdorsal lines . A pale white edged band runs just below the spiracular line and the under parts are pale brown.
The head is orage-brown with darker stripes.
Pupa: Pupates beneath soil
Overwinters as: Larva
Observations: When freshly emerged this is a beautiful rich green moth marbled with white,brown and black.The thorax is green with a rusty ref tuft. The antemedian and postmedian lines are made up of a series of black dashes and the subterminal line id braken and made up of inward facing black spear heads. The terminal line is a series of black small dashes.
The green coloured pigment of the wing soon fades in the sunshine leaving a worn yellowish grey moth.

The moth is attracted to light in small numbers and is also attracted to sugar.
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Type Locality:
Animalia
Eumetozoa
Arthropoda
Hexapoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuoidea
Noctuidae
Noctuinae
Noctuini
ANAPLECTOIDES McDunnough 1929
Anaplectoides prasina ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
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Eurois pressus Grote, 1874
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PHALAENA (Noctua) prasina ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
= Noctua herbida Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775
= Noctua egregia Esper, 1787
= Phalaena (Noctua) jaspidea Borkhausen, 1792
= Noctua mixta Haworth, 1809
= Polyphaenis herbacea Guenée, 1852
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Ankündung eines systematischen Werkes von den Schmetterlingen der Wienergegend : Title Page :  p.82 - n.11
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Germany, Sachsen