baranyi75's Identifications

wild female:

subsequent captive development:

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pupa:

adult:

dissected genitalia of a male (by Carlo Cabella):

Dioszeghyana schmidtii (Diószeghy, 1935)

Miskolctapolca, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, Hungary

The 'Hungarian Quaker' - its world distribution centres on the Carpathian basin; it was long thought to be a Pannonian bioregion endemic. The range of the species has since been shown to extend south into northern Greece and Turkey (Korompai 2006 and see www.macrolepidoptera.hu).

Korompai, T. (2006). A Ponto-Mediterranean speciality of Europe, the "Hungarian Quaker", Dioszeghyana schmidtii (Diószeghy, 1935) (formerly Orthosia schmidti) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). In: Rezbanyai-Reser, L., Kádár, M. and Schreiber, H. 3rd European Moth Nights, 27.4.-1.5.2006, a scientific evaluation (Lepidoptera:Macrolepidoptera).