Luperina Dumerilii
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''Luperina dumerilii'', or Dumeril's rustic, is a
moth Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...
of the family
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. The species was first described by
Philogène Auguste Joseph Duponchel Philogène Auguste Joseph Duponchel (1774 – 10 January 1846) was a French soldier and entomologist. Life and career Philogène Auguste Joseph Duponchel was born in 1774 in Valenciennes, Nord, and died on 10 January 1846 in Paris. After studies ...
in 1826. It is found in the Mediterranean region and warmer areas of central and south-eastern Europe. Strays have been recorded from southern
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. It is also present in
Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...
and
Jordan Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. Jordan is bordered by Syria to the north, Iraq to the east, Saudi Arabia to the south, and Israel and the occupied Palestinian ter ...
.


Technical description and variation

''L. dumerilii'' Dup. (= ''amentata'' Germ.) (43 d). Forewing whitish ochreous, generally with a pinkish or rufous tinge; the median and terminal areas, a costal patch before submarginal line, and generally the basal area olive brown; inner and outer lines double, dark filled in with ochreous; median vein and veinlets whitish: claviform stigma minute, brown edged, or absent; orbicular and reniform filled in with whitish, with pale brown centres; space between outer and submarginal lines of the pale ground colour, or slightly tinged with olive brown; submarginal line indicated by the dark terminal area, generally also preceded by a pale brown line; fringe chequered, brown and pale; hindwing white, tinged with grey in dark females; — ab. ''sancta'' Stgr. (43 d) from Palestine and Sicdy, is smaller, darker, with the upper stigmata snow white: the hindwing with a dark cellspot on the underside; a female from Ficuzza, Sicily certainly belongs here; — ab. ''diversa'' Stgr. now full species ''Luperina diversa'' (Staudinger, [1892 ">892.html" ;"title="now full species ''Luperina diversa'' (Staudinger, [1892">now full species ''Luperina diversa'' (Staudinger, [1892 (43 d), from Asia Minor and Armenia, is paler, somewhat larger, with the markings more diffuse; — ab. ''uniformis'' ab. nov. (= ab. A. Guen., ''desyllesi'' Stgr. nec Bsd.) (43 d) is wholly brownish fuscous; the lines hardly visible except at costa; all 3 stigmata edged with black; the two upper with pale annuli; hindwing white, with a dark cellspot on the underside, as in ''sancta'' Guen.; — Guenee's example was from Lyons; the one described above, a male, from Ficuzza, Sicily. William Warren (entomologist)">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 The wingspan is 29–36 mm.


Biology

There is one generation per year with adults on wing from August to November. The larvae feed on the roots of various grasses. The species overwinters in the larval stage. Pupation takes place in July underground.


Subspecies

*''Luperina dumerilii dumerilii'' *''Luperina dumerilii hartigi'' Ronkay & Varga, 1985 (Sardinia) *''Luperina dumerilii hirsuta'' (Wagner, 1831) (Turkey) *''Luperina dumerilii sancta'' (Staudinger, 1891) (Jordan)


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''Lepiforum e.V.''
* * Luperina Moths of Asia Moths of Europe Moths described in 1826 Taxa named by Philogène Auguste Joseph Duponchel {{moth-stub