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Amphipoea lucens (Large Ear Moth)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Amphipoea lucens, the large ear or large ear moth, is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in most of Europe. the wingspan is about 30–36 mm. Resembles Amphipoea oculea, but is larger, and with the ground colour, as a rule, pale and the reniform white. Adults are on wing from August to September. The larvae feed on the roots and stem bases of various grasses, especially Molinea caerulea.
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Infraspecies

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Prey / Diet

Calluna vulgaris (heather)[1]
Eriophorum angustifolium (tall cottongrass)[1]
Eriophorum vaginatum (tussock cottongrass)[2]
Molinia arundinacea (purple moorgrass)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

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Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Celaena haworthii (Haworth's Minor)2
Cerapteryx graminis (antler moth)2
Coenonympha tullia (California ringlet)3

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Attributes / relations provided by
1Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
2HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0