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The Light Feathered Rustic (''Agrotis cinerea'') is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in Southern and Central Europe, Northern Turkey, the Caucasus, Western Turkmenia and Central Asia. :''See glossary for terms used'' The wingspan is 33–40 mm.Forewing ashy grey, with darker irroration: claviform and orbicular stigmata obsolete: reniform a small dark lunule; a distinct diffuse dark median shade: hindwing whitish, in the ? grey-tinged.— in the ab. ''alpigena'' Tur. the wings are paler and the markings indistinct, while in ab. ''livonica'' Teich they are very much darker. — ab. ''fusca'' Bsd., is larger than the typical form, and black brown; — subsp. ''tephrina'' 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, so that the aberrations which he there put forward must be considered as applying solely to the British race: — these are ab. ''pallida'' Tutt, pale grey without median shade and all males; — ab. ''obscura'' Tutt nec Hbn. a unicolorous dull brown form generally (but not always) confined to females; and ab. ''virgata'' Tutt pale grey with a distinct reddish median shade, and all males. 〔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 〕 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 ''Berberis vulgaris'' The larvae feed on the roots and leaves of low-growing herbaceous plants and grasses, including ''Thymus praecox'', ''Stellaria media'', ''Medicago sativa'', ''Rumex'' and ''Taraxacum''. . ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Agrotis cinerea」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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