Nycteola asiatica

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Nycteola asiatica
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Nolidae
Genus: Nycteola
Species:
N. asiatica
Binomial name
Nycteola asiatica
(Krulikovsky, 1904)
Synonyms
  • Sarrothripus populana
  • Sarrothripus hungarica
  • Nycteola pseudasiatica

Nycteola asiatica, the eastern nycteoline, is a moth of the family Nolidae. The species was first described by Leonid Konstantinovich Krulikovsky in 1904. It is found in most of Europe and east across the Palearctic to Japan.

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Caterpillar

The wingspan is 22–25 mm. It closely resembles Nycteola revayana and is separable only by genitalic characters. The moth flies in two generations from mid-June to September and from March to April depending on the location.

The larvae feed on Salix and Populus species.


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