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Euxoa birivia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Noctuidae |
Genus: | Euxoa |
Species: | E. birivia
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Binomial name | |
Euxoa birivia (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
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Euxoa birivia is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Europe ( France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria and Croatia), east to Ukraine, the Caucasus, Armenia, central Asia, Ili, Issyk-Kul, Turkey and Iran.
The wingspan is 34–41 mm. Warren states E. birivia Schiff. (= honoratina Donz., dolis Grote) (6c). Forewing dark ashgrey, with pale dusting;lines themselves ill-defined , but marked by paler scaling ; orbicular and reniform stigmata ochreous , or with the centres dark but ringed with ochreous; hindwing fuscous grey, paling towards base. Occurs in S. Europe, in the French and Swiss Alps, in Italy,, Austria and Hungary; — in the ab. taurica Stgr. the pale scales are ochreous yellow, instead of white; this form occurs in Asia Minor and Turkestan. [1]
Adults are on wing from mid July to the end of August. There is one generation per year.
The larvae probably feed on the roots of various grass species.