''Celaena haworthii'', or Haworth's minor, is a moth of the family

Noctuidae The Noctuidae, commonly known as owlet moths, cutworms or armyworms, are a family of moths. They are considered the most controversial family in the superfamily Noctuoidea because many of the clades are constantly changing, along with the other f ...

. The species was first described by John Curtis in 1829. It is found from the British Isles and France through northern Europe including Scandinavia, east to the Urals and across the

Palearctic The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Sibe ...

to Siberia and up to the Pacific Ocean.

Description

The wingspan is 25–30 mm. Forewing brown tinged with reddish; the lines dark, indistinct; the outer followed by a pale oblique band reaching vein 6; the submarginal line, close to margin, dentate, whitish, preceded by a dark shade containing three or four black wedge-shaped marks; orbicular small, annular, rufous, sometimes obsolete; reniform ochreous with rufous centre, in some cases all white; claviform short, black; median vein and bases of veins 3, 4, and generally vein 1 white or whitish; hindwing dull brownish, darker along the termen; cellspot and outer line dark; this British form is smaller and less brightly marked than the continental form, ''erupta'' Germ., which is velvety brown black, dusted in places with pale scales, and with all the pale markings stronger, especially the stigmata; without reddish tinge, or at least not prominently reddish; — the ab. ''hibernica'' Stph., from Ireland, is redder, with the pale markings less defined.

Biology

Adults are on wing from July to the beginning of October in one generation. Larva pinkish ochreous to purplish brown; dorsal and subdorsal lines pale; the tubercles black; head, and thoracic plate pale reddish brown. The larvae feed on the root crowns and stems of various grasses, as well as ''

Eriophorum ''Eriophorum'' (cottongrass, cotton-grass or cottonsedge) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cyperaceae, the sedge family. They are found throughout the arctic, subarctic, and temperate portions of the Northern Hemisphere in acid bog ...

'' and '' Juncus'' species. Adults are active during the night and day and feed on flower nectar of ''

Calluna vulgaris ''Calluna vulgaris'', common heather, ling, or simply heather, is the sole species in the genus ''Calluna'' in the flowering plant family Ericaceae. It is a low-growing evergreen shrub growing to tall, or rarely to and taller, and is found wid ...

'', '' Origanum vulgare'' and '' Molinia'' species.

References

External links

Haworth's Minor at ''UKMoths''
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''Lepiforum e.V.''''Schmetterlinge-Deutschlands.de''
Hadeninae Moths of Europe Taxa named by John Curtis Moths described in 1829 {{Hadeninae-stub