Drasteria caucasica

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Drasteria caucasica
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Drasteria
Species:
D. caucasica
Binomial name
Drasteria caucasica
(Kolenati, 1848) [1]
Synonyms
  • Euclidia caucasicaKolenati, 1848
  • Leucanitis caucasica f. aksuensisFuchs, 1903
  • Ophiusa astridaEversmann, 1857

Drasteria caucasica is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in Romania, north-eastern Bulgaria, southern Moldova, southern Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Daghestan, Armenia, Iraq, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kyrghyzstan, China (Xinjiang, Tibet) and Mongolia. [2]

The wingspan is 29–32 mm. Adults are on wing from May to August.

The larvae feed on Eleagnus , Hippophae (including Hippophae rhamnoides ) and Paliurus species.

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References

  1. Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Drasteria caucasica (Kolenati 1846)". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on March 24, 2016.
  2. "Naturkundliches Informationssystem". Archived from the original on 2018-07-02. Retrieved 2015-02-17.