The larva of <i>Autographa buraetica</i> (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)

Authors

• Matti Ahola
• Nils Ryrholm

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33338/ef.83896

Abstract

The larva of Autographa buraetica (Staudinger, 1892) is described from materials based on ex ovo rearings carried out in Sweden in the summers 1989 and 1991. Description of mouthparts, chaetotaxy and ornaments are given with drawings and photographs. The larva can be separated from other species of Autographa, also from the sister species A. pulchrina (Haworth, 1809). The so-called "intermediate form" belongs to A. buraetica (not to A. pulchrina), but, based on a limited material, the "intermediate" larvae seem to show slight average differences to those of the "typical" A. buraetica.