Leucania punctosa

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Leucania punctosa
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Leucania punctosa in Seitz figure 25c
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Leucania
Species:
L. punctosa
Binomial name
Leucania punctosa
(Treitschke, 1825)
Synonyms
  • Simyra punctosaTreitschke, 1825
  • Mythimna punctosa

Leucania punctosa is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found from Morocco to Libya, southern Europe, Turkey, Armenia, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, the Sinai in Egypt, Iran, Iraq and Turkmenistan.

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Technical description and variation

S. punctosa Tr. (25c). Forewing luteous grey; costa paler; a grey brown shade along median vein and outer margin; veins grey: lines finely zigzag, mostly broken up into linear points; a slightly elongated whitish spot at lower angle of cell on a grey cloud; hindwing white. Larva yellowish grey, paler at sides; dorsal line fine, white, black-edged; subdorsal blackish, interrupted, whitish-edged beneath; spiracles brown in a red ring, above a white line. [1]

Biology

Adults are on wing from October to November. There is one generation per year.

The larvae feed on various Gramineae species.

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References

  1. Warren. W. in Seitz, A. Ed., 1914 Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde, Verlag Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart Band 3: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen eulenartigen Nachtfalter, 1914PD-icon.svgThis article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.