Metopoceras kneuckeri | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Noctuidae |
Genus: | Metopoceras |
Species: | M. kneuckeri |
Binomial name | |
Metopoceras kneuckeri (Rebel, 1903) | |
Synonyms | |
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Metopoceras kneuckeri is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Hans Rebel in 1903. It is found in northwest Africa, Pakistan, and the United Arab Emirates.
The wingspan is about 26 mm. Adults are on wing from March to April. There is one generation per year.
The larvae probably feed on babul trees.
Acontiinae is a subfamily of bird dropping moths in the family Noctuidae. There are more than 50 genera and 430 described species in Acontiinae, found worldwide in temperate and tropical climates.
Cuculliinae is one of the larger subfamilies of moths in the family Noctuidae.
Acrobyla is a genus of bird dropping moths of the family Noctuidae.
Metopoceras is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae.
Acantholipes circumdata is a species of moth in the family Erebidae first described by Francis Walker in 1858. It is found from India and Pakistan through Afghanistan and Iran to the Arabian Peninsula and eastern Africa.
Hecatera fixseni is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Egypt, Israel, Armenia, Iran, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Cucullia boryphora is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim in 1840. It is found in the semi-arid and xeromountain areas of the Near East and Middle East, from the European part of southern Russia to Turkestan, the western Himalayas, Afghanistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates.
Metopoceras omar is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Charles Oberthür in 1887. It is widespread through the Palearctic eremic (desert) zone from north-western Africa to the Near East and Middle East.
Metopoceras delicata is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Otto Staudinger in 1898. It is found in the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, Turkey, Israel, Jordan and Syria.
Metopoceras felicina is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Portugal, Spain, the Canary Islands, and the western parts of the Maghreb countries. This is a thermophilous species found in Thermo and Meso-Mediterranean habitats with xerophilous grasslands and light scrubland.
Metopoceras philbyi is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Wiltshire in 1980. It is endemic to western Arabia and is known from various locations on the Arabian Peninsula as well as in Jordan and Israel.
Metopoceras solituda is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Brandt in 1938. It is found in the eremic (desert) parts of Africa, north to south-western Iran and the Near East, where it occurs in Saudi Arabia, the Sinai in Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
Metopoceras duseutrei is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Morocco, Algeria and Mauritania.
Metopoceras driss is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Morocco and has been found once in Spain.
Metopoceras canroberti is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Morocco, Yemen, Algeria and eastern Africa.
Metopoceras albarracina is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in the Sierra de Albarracín, Aragon, Spain.
Metopoceras khalildja is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Morocco, Spain, Sicily, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt