''Pyrrhia victorina'' 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 ...
. It is found in
Bulgaria,
Greece,
Romania,
Slovenia, former
Yugoslavia (including
Croatia,
Serbia,
Bosnia and Herzegovina and
North Macedonia) and
Daghestan.
Description from Seitz
Forewing sulphur yellow: the veins and lines deep rosy purple; a rosy sinuous median shade passing over the discocellular; an outer and a submarginal line, the latter not reaching costa: a fine dark purple terminal line; fringe sulphur yellow; hindwing suffused with blackish fuscous, with darker veins and submarginal band, wholly blackish in female; the fringe white; occurring in S. E. Europe only, Servia, Bulgaria, S. Russia, the Caucasus, Armenia, Asia Minor, and N. Kurdistan;
the form described as ''prazanoffzkyi'' Guen. (46 h) from Amasia is much paler in both wings, with all the
rosy tints much reduced : the underside pale instead of purplish fuscous. — Larva dull green or violet red dorsal line very faint; subdorsal pale, slender, interrupted at the segmental incisions; lateral lines broader, the reddish spiracles placed on their upper margin; tubercles black; head black brown; thoracic plate yellowish: feeding on ''
Dictamnus
''Dictamnus'' is a genus of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae, native to temperate Eurasia from Spain to China. The genus was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753.
Species
, Plants of the World Online accepted two species:
*''Dictamnus ...
'' and ''
Salvia''.
[ Seitz A., 1914 ''Gross-Schmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes''. Band 3: Die eulenartigen Nachtfalter. - 1-511 S., Taf.1-75, Alfred Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart.]
References
External links
ImageThe Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) of the Daghestan Republic (Russia)
Heliothinae
Insects of Turkey
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