Centre-barred Sallow
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Noctuidae
Genus:	Atethmia
Species:	A. centrago
Binomial name
Atethmia centrago (Haworth, 1809)

The Centre-barred Sallow (Atethmia centrago) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Europe except Scandinavia and Italy; also in Asia Minor, Armenia, Syria and Palestine.

Description

The wingspan is 32–36 mm.Forewing deep yellow, with a greyish purple central fascia, terminal area beyond submarginal line of the same colour; the central fascia is edged inwardly by a pale vertical inner line, and outwardly by an obliquely sinuous outer line; the fascia does not reach above the middle except beyond the reniform stigma which is similarly coloured; fringe greyish purple; a small dark spot shows at base of cell; hindwing dull white, becoming yellowish rufous towards termen; the whole forewing is sometimes suffused with purplish, only the two lines showing yellowish and the central fascia darker; the hindwing redder; this is ab. unicolor Stgr.; — pallida Stgr. from Asia Minor is a paler form, reddish or greyish ochreous in the forewing, with the hindwing whiter; — maculifera Stgr. from Syria and Palestine is also a paler but yellowish form, with the reniform stigma large and dark, and the outer pale line more strongly excurved above; the hindwing greyish yellow; the forewing shorter with less produced apex.^[1]

The length of the forewings is 15–18 mm. The moth flies in one generation in from August to early October ^[1].

The caterpillars mainly feed on ash.^[2]

Notes

1. ^ The flight season refers to Belgium and The Netherlands. This may vary in other parts of the range.

References

External links

• Fauna Europaea
• Funet Taxonomy
• Lepidoptera of Belgium
• Lepidoptera Mundi by Christopher Jonko
• Lepiforum.de
• UK Moths
• Vlindernet.nl Template:Nl