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Ipimorpha retusa (double kidney)

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The Double Kidney (Ipimorpha retusa) is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in most of Europe. In the east, the range extends through Turkey, Siberia, Mongolia and China to Korea and Japan. The habitat consists of damp marshy places. The wingspan is 28–32 mm. The ground colour of the forewings ranges from reddish-brown to dark brown. The hindwings are greyish brown. Adults are on wing from July to September. The larvae feed on Salix and Populus species, spinning together the shoots. They can be found from May to June. The species overwinters as an egg.
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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
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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