Leucania punctosa

Species of moth

Leucania punctosa

Leucania punctosa in Seitz figure 25c
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
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 punctosa Treitschke, 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.

## Technical description and variation

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For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.

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

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

The larvae feed on various Gramineae species.

## References

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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, 1914 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

## External links

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* Hadeninae of Israel
* Lepiforum.de

Taxon identifiers

Leucania punctosa|

* Wikidata: Q6533951
* BioLib: 54343
* BOLD: 278723
* EoL: 453907
* EUNIS: 310575
* Fauna Europaea: 448362
* Fauna Europaea (new): 93a80bc8-e6a5-4b2d-9b60-07461ec5bd56
* GBIF: 5111513
* iNaturalist: 468721
* NCBI: 1870032
* Observation.org: 153351
* Open Tree of Life: 3197163

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