| Actinotia polyodon | |
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Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Noctuidae |
| Genus: | Actinotia |
| Species: | A. polyodon |
| Binomial name | |
| Actinotia polyodon (Clerck, 1759) | |
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Actinotia polyodon, thepurple cloud, is amoth of the familyNoctuidae. It is found in much of thePalearctic realm, from Europe toRussia andJapan.
A. polyodon Cl. (=perspicillaris L.) (15 d). Forewing bone-colour suffused with olive brown along costa and inner margin and interrupted along termen; the reniform stigma also placed on an olive brown cloud: costa and space between veins 2 and 4 tinged with purplish pink; a black streak from base in submedian fold and a double one from inner margin near base; reniform stigma large, pale olive with linear centre and outline creamy white; veins towards margin dark, forming centre of wedgeshaped marks, 3, 4 and 7, 8 broadly edged with ground colour and cutting the dark fringe; outer line marked by dark dots on veins: hindwing bone-colour with broad brownish margin and blackish veins. - Larva red-brown, dotted with black; a subdorsal row of oblique brown marks; dorsal and spiracular lines yellow; head brown.[1]Thewingspan is 31–36 mm.
Adults are on wing from May to August in two generations. At times there is a partial third generation from September to October.
The larvae feed on perforate St John's-wort (Hypericum perforatum) and liquorice milkvetch (Astragalus glycyphyllos).
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