Apamea unanimis
Apamea unanimis
The Small Clouded Brindle is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is native to Europe, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and western Siberia. It has been introduced in North America and can now be found in Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, New York, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
The wingspan is 30–38 mm. Forewing brownish-fuscous, or, like ''obscura'' Haw., red-brown, but without so much of the grey tinge; a black streak from base below cell, and another above inner margin near base; ; often a blackish streak on submedian fold between the two lines; reniform stigma externally edged with white; the terminal area not so dark, more dusted with grey; the submarginal line not acutely angled below middle; — the form with black streak on submedian fold, sometimes with a paler basal and submarginal areas, as in ''remissa'' Hbn, is the ab. ''secalina'' Haw.; — ab. ''rufithorax'' ab. nov. [Warren], agreeing in both respects with ''secalina'', has besides the whole head and thorax including
the patagia bright rufous; the only example, a male, of this form is from Wiesbaden; — two other forms deserve notice; ab. fasciata ab. nov. has the median area filled up with dark fuscous, the pale upper stigmata and the inner and outer lines more conspicuous; the head and thorax blackish; — ab. ''semiochrea'' ab. nov.[Warren] has the postmedian area between outer and submarginal lines and the lower part of the median area pale ochreous, and might easily be mistaken for an example of ''secalis'' L. ab. ''oculea'' Guen.
Adults are on wing from June to July depending on the location.
The larvae feed on the common reed, canarygrasses, and mannagrasses.
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The wingspan is 30–38 mm. Forewing brownish-fuscous, or, like ''obscura'' Haw., red-brown, but without so much of the grey tinge; a black streak from base below cell, and another above inner margin near base; ; often a blackish streak on submedian fold between the two lines; reniform stigma externally edged with white; the terminal area not so dark, more dusted with grey; the submarginal line not acutely angled below middle; — the form with black streak on submedian fold, sometimes with a paler basal and submarginal areas, as in ''remissa'' Hbn, is the ab. ''secalina'' Haw.; — ab. ''rufithorax'' ab. nov. [Warren], agreeing in both respects with ''secalina'', has besides the whole head and thorax including
the patagia bright rufous; the only example, a male, of this form is from Wiesbaden; — two other forms deserve notice; ab. fasciata ab. nov. has the median area filled up with dark fuscous, the pale upper stigmata and the inner and outer lines more conspicuous; the head and thorax blackish; — ab. ''semiochrea'' ab. nov.[Warren] has the postmedian area between outer and submarginal lines and the lower part of the median area pale ochreous, and might easily be mistaken for an example of ''secalis'' L. ab. ''oculea'' Guen.
Adults are on wing from June to July depending on the location.
The larvae feed on the common reed, canarygrasses, and mannagrasses.
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