Leucania 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.

Leucania punctosa
Leucania punctosa in Seitz figure 25c
Scientific classification
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

Technical description and variation
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

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


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