1. Live pictures

1.1. Imago

2. Diagnosis

1-3: ♂, data see label (coll. & photos: Egbert Friedrich)

1-3: ♀, data see label (coll. & photos: Egbert Friedrich)

2.1. Original description

1: Linnaeus (1758: 527) [from copyright-free scan at www.biodiversitylibrary.org]

3. Further information

3.1. Other combinations

• Phalaena janata Linnaeus, 1758 [original combination]

3.2. Synonyms

• Phalaena melicerta Drury, [1773] [synonym according to funet.fi]
• Noctua tigrina Fabricius, 1775 [synonym according to funet.fi]
• Noctua cyathina Macleay, 1826 [synonym according to funet.fi]
• Catocala traversii Fereday, 1877 [synonym according to funet.fi]
• Ophiusa ekeikei Bethune-Baker, 1906 [synonym according to funet.fi]
• Achaea melicertoides Strand, 1914 [synonym according to funet.fi]
• Achaea melicertella Strand, 1914 [synonym according to funet.fi]
• Achaea melicertoides Gaede, 1938 [synonym according to funet.fi]
• Achaea melicertella Gaede, 1938 [synonym according to funet.fi]

3.3. Faunistics

There is one single record from Europe: Agassiz et al. (2013: 112) list the species among the "adventive species" and write to England: "One reared from pomegranate, Crawley, Sussex, 2010: (Clarke, 2011). Indo-Australian."

(Author: Erwin Rennwald)

3.4. Literature

• Agassiz, D.J.L., Beavan, S.D. & R.J. Heckford (2013): Checklist of the Lepidoptera of the British Isles. - Royal Entomological Society. 206pp.
• Original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758): Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. 1-824. Holmiae (Laurentius Salvius).