- Six-striped Rustic
Taxobox
name = Six-striped Rustic
regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Arthropod a
classis =Insect a
ordo =Lepidoptera
familia =Noctuidae
genus = "Xestia "
species = "X. sexstrigata"
binomial = "Xestia sexstrigata"
binomial_authority = Haworth,1809 The Six-striped Rustic ("Xestia sexstrigata") is amoth of the familyNoctuidae . It is distributed throughoutEurope apart from the far south east.This is a fairly small species with a
wingspan of 36-38 mm. It has pale brown forewings marked with six darkfascia although some of these can be indistinct. The hindwings are pale buff, darker towards the margin. The moth flies at night in July and August ref|flight_season and is attracted to light and sugar, as well as theflower s of ragwort.The
larva feeds on variousherbaceous plants including dock, plantain and variousgrass es. The species overwinters as alarva .#Note|flight_season"The flight season refers to the
British Isles . This may vary in other parts of the range."External links
* [http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/noctuidae/noctuinae/xestia/index.html#sexstrigata Six-striped Rustic at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera pages]
References
*Chinery, Michael "Collins Guide to the Insects of Britain and Western Europe" 1986 (Reprinted 1991)
*Skinner, Bernard "Colour Identification Guide to Moths of the British Isles" 1984
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