Dysauxes ancilla

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Dysauxes ancilla
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Dysauxes
Species:
D. ancilla
Binomial name
Dysauxes ancilla
Synonyms
  • Phalaena Noctua ancillaLinnaeus, 1767
  • Bombyx obscuraFabricius, 1781
  • Phalaena lemopictaFourcroy, 1785
  • Phalaena fuscopteraFourcroy, 1785
  • Dysauxes ancilla race abundansDannehl, 1933
  • Naclia ModestaKrulikowsky, 1895

Dysauxes ancilla, the handmaid, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1767 12th edition of Systema Naturae. It lives in southern and central Europe, through Turkey and Armenia, over the Ural Mountains and up to the Caucasus.

The wingspan is 22–25 mm.

The larvae primarily feed on Taraxacum , Senecio , Plantago and Lactuca species.


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