Clytie illunaris

Clytie illunaris
	Clytie illunaris in Seitz figure 62b
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Genus:	Clytie
Species:	C. illunaris
Binomial name
	Clytie illunaris; (Hübner, 1813)
Synonyms
	Noctua illunaris Hübner, [1813]; Clytie canaris;

Clytie illunaris is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Jacob Hübner in 1813. It is found in France, Spain, North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.

Technical description and variation[edit]

Clytie illunaris Hbn. (= gracilis B.-Haas.) (62 b). Forewing grey, or dark ash grey, or, more rarely, pale bone colour; inner and outer lines blackish, very seldom clear, often interrupted, or even altogether absent; submarginal line pale, only visible in the dark grey examples, always preceded by a black irregularly zigzag line, not reaching costa but blackest below it; orbicular stigma a faint dark dot; reniform a pale figure of 8, often divided into two spots; hindwing pale grey or bone colour, with a broad diffuse grey submarginal band, always darker and better defined in the female; the pale bone colour forms may be separated as ab. ossea ab. nov. (= ab. 2 Hmps.) (62 b); in ab. brunnea ab. nov. (= ab. 1 Hmps.) the ground colour of forewing is brown, the markings equally obsolete; while in ab. obscura ab. nov. (= ab. 3 Hmps.) the forewing, except at base of inner margin, is suffused with red brown, the subterminal line alone being visible.^[1]

Subspecies[edit]

Clytie illunaris illunaris
Clytie illunaris legraini

Biology[edit]

There are multiple generations per year.

The larvae feed on Tamarix species, including Tamarix gallica.

References[edit]

^ 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.

External links[edit]

Kravchenko, V. D.; Müller, G.; Orlova, O. B.; Seplyarskaya, V. N. (2004). "The Catocalinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) of Israel" (PDF). Russian Entomological Journal. 13 (3): 175–186. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-08-19 – via Internet Archive.
Lepiforum e.V.

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[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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