Phragmatobia placida

Phragmatobia placida is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Imre Frivaldszky in 1835. It is found in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Greece, Ukraine,[1] Asia Minor and the Near East.[2]

Phragmatobia placida
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Phragmatobia
Species:
P. placida
Binomial name
Phragmatobia placida
(Frivaldszky, 1835)
Synonyms
  • Euprepia placida Frivaldszky, 1835

The wingspan is about 41 mm.

The larvae feed on Plantago and Taraxacum species.

Subspecies

  • Phragmatobia placida placida
  • Phragmatobia placida mirzayansi Dubatolov & Zahiri, 2005
  • Phragmatobia placida unipuncta Amsel, 1935
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References

  1. Fauna Europaea
  2. Savela, Markku. "Phragmatobia placida (Frivaldszky, 1835)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 27, 2019.


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