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The bright-line brown-eye (''Lacanobia oleracea'') is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is a common species throughout Europe, but is also found in North Africa (Morocco and Algeria), temperate North Asia and Central Asia, Asia Minor, Syria, and Turkestan, northern India, China, Korea and Japan. This species' common name is usefully descriptive: The forewings are dark reddish-brown marked with a prominent light orange-brown stigma and a bright white subterminal line. The hindwings are grey, darker towards the termen. The wingspan is 34–44 mm. They are attracted to light, sugar and nectar-rich flowers. ==Technical description and variation== :''See glossary for terms used'' Forewing red brown clouded with darker; veins grey, whitish towards termen: reniform stigma orange in its upper part, dark fuscous below; orbicular round, white-edged, sometimes very small; submarginal line finely white, toothed on veins 3, 4 to termen; hindwing dull whitish, pale fuscous towards termen; the veins dark;-the ground colour varies on one side to black brown, ab. ''obscura'' Spul, and on the other to rufous, ab. ''rufa'' Tutt ; ab. ''variegata'' Aust, from Morocco, is paler, reddish yellow.〔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 〕 The larva is green or brown dotted with white with black and yellow spiracular lines down the side with darker edging.The tubercles are black.It feeds on a wide range of plants. and is occasionally a pest of cultivated tomatoes. The species overwinters as a pupa. Flight from latter half of June to July. Occasional second generation from end of August to first half of September.〔(Lacanobia reference )〕 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「Bright-line brown-eye」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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