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Agrotis cinerea

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Stgr. is smaller, with forewing narrower, and the markings much clearer; this form is confined to the south of England. Tutt, writing in 1892, Brit. Noct. 11, p. 76, evidently with only British specimens before him, did not notice that the British race was per se distinct from continental forms,
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The yellowish-white egg has an indistinctly ribbed surface. Adult caterpillars are mostly earth-grey and thus well adapted to their surroundings. They have some indistinct, dark lines and stripes on the dorsum and sides. Black point warts stand out more intensely. The reddish-brown pupa is
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is 33–40 mm. Forewing ashy grey, with darker irroration (sprinkling): claviform and orbicular stigmata obsolete: reniform a small dark lunule; a distinct diffuse dark median shade: hindwing whitish, in the female grey-tinged. — in the ab.
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characterized by a comb-like cremaster with two short thorns. The larvae feed on the roots and leaves of low-growing herbaceous plants and grasses, including
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Adults are on wing from May to June depending on the location and are active during both day and night and can be found near flowers, such as
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so that the aberrations which he there put forward must be considered as applying solely to the British race: — these are ab.
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Tutt nec Hbn. a unicolorous dull brown form generally (but not always) confined to females; and ab.
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Tutt pale grey with a distinct reddish median shade, and all males.
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Tur. the wings are paler and the markings indistinct, while in ab.
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Bsd., is larger than the typical form, and black brown; — subsp.
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in 1775. It is found in southern and central Europe, northern
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Tutt, pale grey without median shade and all males; — ab.
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Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuoidea
Noctuidae
Agrotis
Binomial name
Denis
Schiffermüller
Synonyms
moth
Noctuidae
first described
Michael Denis
Ignaz Schiffermüller
Turkey
Caucasus
Turkmenia
Central Asia

John Curtis
British Entomology
Glossary of entomology terms
wingspan
Berberis vulgaris

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