Colobochyla salicalis
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Genus: | Colobochyla |
| Species: | C. salicalis
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| Binomial name | |
| Colobochyla salicalis (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
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Colobochyla salicalis, the European lesser belle or lesser belle, is a species of moth of the family Erebidae. It is found over almost all of the Palearctic.
Technical description and variation
[edit]C. salicalis Schiff. (71 b). Forewing pale fuscous finely dusted with whitish, so as to appear grey; lines ferruginous edged with pale ochreous; the inner straight, the outer and subterminal somewhat curved inwards, the latter running into apex; hindwing pale fuscous, darker terminally, showing a faint subterminal line.; the forms occurring in [ Amurland and Japan] are greyer or paler that in Japan, —ab. cinerea Btlr., — greyer than the type; while the Amurland form — ab. laetalis Stgr. — is not only much paler but slightly smaller. Larva green, with the segmental incisions yellowish; the head also green; spiracles black.[1] The wingspan is 26–30 mm.
Biology
[edit]Adults are on wing from May to July. There is one generation per year.
The larvae feed on the young shoots and leaves of Populus tremula.
References
[edit]- ^ Warren. W. in 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
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