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The Purple Clay (''Diarsia brunnea'') is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in most of Europe, east to Transcaucasia, the Caucasus, central Asia, Siberia, the Kuriles, Amur, Ussuri, Sakhalin, Korea, Japan, Tibet and China. ==Description== :''See glossary for terms used'' The wingspan is 35–38 mm. Forewing pinkish or purplish plumcolour; the costal half with a fulvous and yellow tinge; cell deep olive brown; claviform marked by a dark spot at its end; orbicular oblong, of the ground-colour; reniform outlined or filled with ochreous; hindwing luteous fuscous; cilia pink〔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 July to August. Larva dark brown; dorsal and subdorsal lines pale, lateral lines whitish; a row of pale yellow dark-edged oblique stripes, and a yellow stripe across segment 11. The larvae feed on a wide range of herbaceous plants and shrubs, including ''Rumex'' species (including ''Rumex acetosella''), ''Dryopteris filix-mas'', ''Luzula sylvatica'', ''Deschampsia flexuosa'', ''Brachypodium sylvaticum'', ''Vaccinium myrtillus'', ''Vaccinium uliginosum'', ''Prunus spinosa'', ''Primula'', ''Rubus'', ''Urtica'', ''Salix'' and ''Betula''. 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「Diarsia brunnea」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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