Dasypolia templi

Dasypolia templi
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Noctuidae
Genus:	Dasypolia
Species:	D. templi
Binomial name
	Dasypolia templi; (Thunberg, 1792)
Synonyms
	Noctua templi; Dasypolia ferdinandi var. caflischi;

Dasypolia templi, the brindled ochre, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Carl Peter Thunberg in 1792. It is found in northern Europe up to central Siberia and more to the south in mountainous areas.

Description

The length of the forewings is 18–23 mm. Forewing pale yellow grey in the male, simply pale grey in the female, densely dusted with darker: the lines diffusely darker still, outwardly edged with pale ground colour; median area often darker, the reniform, and sometimes the orbicular, showing paler; submarginal line pale, waved; fringe chequered, grey and yellowish; hindwing a little paler, with cellspot, outer, and sometimes a submarginal line greyer; — ab. alpina Ruehl. is an alpine form, with the ground colour more bluish grey, the stigmata picked out with chalk white, and the outer line of hindwing more strongly marked.^[1]

Figs.1, 2, 3, 4 larvae in various stages of growth 5 pupa in the stem etc of Heracleum sphondyleum See text of plate

Biology

Larva yellowish grey, tinged dorsally with red; when fully grown, they are the peachy tan, with large tubercles; head, thoracic, and anal plates brown. The larvae feed on Aegopodium podagraria, Angelica sylvestris, Angelica archangelica v. litoralis, Levisticum officinale, Heracleum sphondylium and Heracleum laciniatum.^[2]