''Ocnogyna corsicum'' is a
moth of the family
Erebidae
The Erebidae are a family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well-known macromoth groups. The family includes the underwings ('' Catocala'') ...
. It was described by
Jules Pierre Rambur in 1832.
Distribution
It is found on
Corsica
Corsica ( , Upper , Southern ; it, Corsica; ; french: Corse ; lij, Còrsega; sc, Còssiga) is an island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of the 18 regions of France. It is the fourth-largest island in the Mediterranean and lies southeast of ...
and
Sardinia.
Biology
The habitat consists of grasslands, pastures,
maquis
Maquis may refer to:
Resistance groups
* Maquis (World War II), predominantly rural guerrilla bands of the French Resistance
* Spanish Maquis, guerrillas who fought against Francoist Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War
* The network ...
, forest edges and mountain slopes.
Description
(MHNT) Ocnogyna corsicum Corse France - male dorsal.jpg, ♂
(MHNT) Ocnogyna corsicum Corse France - male ventral.jpg, ♂ △
The females are
brachypterous.
The larvae are
polyphagous
Feeding is the process by which organisms, typically animals, obtain food. Terminology often uses either the suffixes -vore, -vory, or -vorous from Latin ''vorare'', meaning "to devour", or -phage, -phagy, or -phagous from Greek φαγε ...
and have been recorded feeding on various plants, including ''
Genista'', ''
Urtica'', ''
Trifolium
Clover or trefoil are common names for plants of the genus ''Trifolium'' (from Latin ''tres'' 'three' + ''folium'' 'leaf'), consisting of about 300 species of flowering plants in the legume or pea family Fabaceae originating in Europe. The genus h ...
'', ''
Taraxacum'', ''
Plantago'' and
Gramineae species.
"''Ocnogyna corsica'' (Rambur, 1832)"
''Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa''. Retrieved September 27, 2019. Larvae can be found from April to June.
Subspecies
*''Ocnogyna corsicum corsica'' (Corsica)
*''Ocnogyna corsicum sardoa'' Staudinger, 1870 (Sardinia)
Gallery
Ocnogyna corsicum.jpg, Male
Ocnogyna_corsicum1.jpg, Male
Ocnogyna_corsicum2.jpg, Female
Ocnogyna_corsicum_larva.jpg, Larva
Ocnogyna corsicum egg pupa.jpg, Life cycle
References
External links
''Ocnogyna corsica'' on ''Fauna Europaea''
Spilosomina
Moths described in 1832
Moths of Europe
Taxa named by Jules Pierre Rambur
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