Hyssia cavernosa

Hyssia cavernosa
	Hyssia cavernosa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Noctuidae
Genus:	Hyssia
Species:	H. cavernosa
Binomial name
	Hyssia cavernosa; (Eversmann, 1842)

Hyssia cavernosa is a species of moth belonging to the family Noctuidae.^[1]

It is native to the Palearctic.^[1]

Description

Warren states.H. cavernosa Ev. (= ornata H.-Sch.) (21 f). Forewing violet grey, suffused with fuscous; inner margin below vein 1 prominently yellowish white, a sharp-pointed black streak from the base below vein 1; lines vertical; stigmata large and conspicuous, deep olive brown; claviform bullet-shaped; orbicular round, black-edged, open at the top; reniform with dark centre; outer line minutely dentate, pale-edged, with 2 longer grey teeth along veins 3, 4 touching a subterminal line, which is white, preceded by double dark blotches on the folds and at costa, and an oblong grey blotch between veins 6 and 7; hindwing fuscous, with cell spot and terminal area darker. A South European species found in Italy, Switzerland, Hungary, Austria and S. E. Russia: extending from the Altai Mts. in W. Siberia to Ussuri in E. Siberia, and occurring in W. and E. Turkestan and Mongolia. ^[2] The larva is green, thickest in the middle and tapering forward and backwards. It has a thin yellow or orange lateral line and two thin white dorsal lines that can be lined with blackish shadows.

Biology

The larvae feed on Silene spp. and Aristolochia clematitis

References

^ ^a ^b "Hyssia cavernosa (Eversmann, 1842)". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
^ 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.

[GBIF-1] "Hyssia cavernosa (Eversmann, 1842)". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 16 February 2021.

[2] 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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