Notodonta dromedarius
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Notodontidae |
| Genus: | Notodonta |
| Species: | N. dromedarius
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| Binomial name | |
| Notodonta dromedarius (Linnaeus, 1767)
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Notodonta dromedarius, the iron prominent, is a moth of the family Notodontidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1767. It is found in Europe and Anatolia.
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Description
[edit]The wingspan is 35–40 mm. Notodonta dromedarius has grey or dark brown forewings with rusty and yellowish stains. A broken rust-brown band runs along the outside edge of the forewing. There is a small discal spot, a postmedial crossline which is often broken and outer margins which are suffused dark red. The hindwings are usually pale grey-brown with dark veining. The colouring is very variable and very dark specimens are found.
Description in Seitz-Forewing pale brownish grey to dark drome- grey-brown, with light-edged dark brown pre- and postdiseal dentate bands, the dark discal spot likewise pale- . edged; marginal area more or less distinctly rust -brown around a dark longitudinal streak, the rather broad submarginal band also bright rust-brown. Hindwing grey-brown or predominantly grey. In specimens whose ground-colour is faded on account of age or is not properly developed, the bright markings are very prominent. On the other hand, quite fresh specimens are almost uniformly black-brown, being so dark that the markings are hardly visible. — Central Europe, northward to Esthonia and Livonia, southward to Catalonia and Northern Italy ; Armenia ; according to Graeser also in Amurland. — Larva yellowish green or brown-red, in both cases with a dark red-brown dorsal stripe from head to abdominal segment 4; segments 1 —4 of abdomen each with a large dark red-brown tubercle; an interrupted dark longitudinal marking laterally above the legs. July—August on Willow, Birch, Hazel and Alder. Pupa black-brown, in a cell in the ground. Moth May—June and July-—August. Some of the pupae of the summer-brood hibernate. In the Baltic provinces only one brood.[1]
Biology
[edit]The moth flies from April to August depending on the location.
The larvae feed on Corylus avellana, birch, alder and oak.[2]
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Larva
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References
[edit]- ^ Seitz, A., 1913, in Seitz, Gross-Schmett. Erde 6: 22., The Macrolepidoptera of the Palearctic Fauna 2. Volume: The Palearctic Bombyces & Sphinges. pdf
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Robinson, Gaden S.; Ackery, Phillip R.; Kitching, Ian J.; Beccaloni, George W.; Hernández, Luis M. (2010). "Search the database - introduction and help". HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. Natural History Museum, London.
Further reading
[edit]- South R. (1907) The Moths of the British Isles, (First Series), Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., London & NY: 359 pp. online
External links
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- Iron prominent on UKMoths
- Fauna Europaea
- Lepidoptera of Belgium
- Lepiforum e.V.
- De Vlinderstichting (in Dutch)
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