Phytometra viridaria

Short description: Species of moth

Small purple-barred

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Superfamily:  | Noctuoidea
Family:  | Erebidae
Genus:  | Phytometra
Species:  |

P. viridaria

Binomial name
Phytometra viridaria

(Clerck, 1759)

Phytometra viridaria, the small purple-barred, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Carl Alexander Clerck in 1759.[1] It is found in central and southern Europe, Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Armenia, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan , and further east across the Palearctic to southern Siberia.

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## Contents

* 1 Technical description and variation
* 2 Biology
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Technical description and variation

The wingspan is 19–20 mm. The length of the forewings is 9–11 mm. Forewing olive brownish; the costa at base, and an outer and terminal fascia deep rosy purple; the outer band varying in width; a pale line of ground colour between them; hindwing olive with a median and terminal darker band more or less tinged with purple; in ab. fusca Tutt the purple tints are replaced by dark brown; —ab. aenea Hbn. the ground colour is olive grey or fuscous instead of green; ab. suffusa Tutt is a rare form, blackish fuscous with a still darker terminal border.[2]

Larva (figure2)

## Biology

The moth flies from April to August depending on the location.

Larva green with darker pale-edged dorsal line; the other lines pale, the subspiracular becoming white on anal segments.

The larvae feed on Polygala vulgaris, Polygala serpyllifolia and Pedicularis sylvatica.

## References

1. ↑ Savela, Markku (3 July 2019). "Phytometra viridaria (Clerck, 1759)". https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/erebidae/boletobiinae/phytometra/#viridaria. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
2. ↑ 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

## External links

* Kimber, Ian. "72.067 BF2470 Small Purple-barred Phytometra viridaria (Clerck, 1759)". https://ukmoths.org.uk/species/phytometra-viridaria. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
* Fauna Europaea
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