Autographa gamma Linnaeus, 1758

Della Rocca, Francesca, Stefanelli, Silvia, Cardarelli, Elisa, Bogliani, Giuseppe & Bracco, Francesco, 2021, Contribution to the knowledge of the arthropods community inhabiting the winter-flooded meadows (marcite) of northern Italy, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 57889-57889 : 57889

Autographa gamma Linnaeus, 1758

Distribution

Holarctic species ( Plepys et al. 2002).

Notes

It is one of the largest migratory moths in the world. It is common and often abundant. Polyvoltine, flies almost all year round both at night and during the day. It frequents a great variety of environments because its larvae feed on many different herbaceous species ( Sterry and Mackay 2005).