Heliothis maritima

The shoulder-striped clover (Heliothis maritima) is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in most of Europe, Ukraine, southern Russia and southern Siberia, Transbaikalia, Turkey, central Asia, China, Japan, the Korean Peninsula, Mongolia, northern India, Pakistan, the Russian Far East (Primorye, southern Khabarovsk, the Amur region, southern Sakhalin and the southern Kuriles).

Heliothis maritima
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Noctuidae
Genus:
Heliothis
Species:
H. maritima
Binomial name
Heliothis maritima
Graslin, 1855
Synonyms
  • Heliothis adaucta Butler 1855
  • Chloridea maritima

Technical description and variation
For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.

C. maritima Grasl. (= spergulariae Led.). Like dipsacea L., but the apex of forewing more produced, the median shade more oblique, and the outer fascia straighter; the terminal segment of palpi blackish, without scaling; — in the ab. ferruginea Spul. the forewing is suffused with fulvous and the hindwing with deeper yellow. — Larva either grey green with fine dark dorsal line and broad dark lateral lines above the yellowish white spiracles ; or reddish grey with two fine dark dorsal lines close together; or bluish grey green with black-brown lateral line.[1] The wingspan is 30–36 mm.

Biology

Adults are on wing from June to July in western Europe. Recorded food plants include Spergula, Spergularia, Calluna and Erica.

References
  1. Warren. W. in Seitz, A. Ed., 1914 Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde, Verlag Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart Band 3: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen eulenartigen Nachtfalter, 1914 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.


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