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Forewing purplish black; the lines and edges of stigmata blacker; reniform filled up with cream white round a rufous centre; submarginal line yellowish white broken up into spots preceded by black wedgeshaped marks; hindwing dirty whitish with broad blackish terminal border; the veins and cellspot
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362:(see list below). The species overwinters as a
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496:– yellow loosestrife
370:Recorded food plants
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151:M. persicariae
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639:Vaccinium
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560:raspberry
552:– currant
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581:Sambucus
543:holm oak
462:hawkweed
378:Aconitum
308:Caucasus
300:Bulgaria
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556:Rubus
549:Ribes
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475:Larix
400:Alnus
351:larva
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288:China
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248:Spain
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