Drasteria cailino

Drasteria cailino
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Superfamily:Noctuoidea
Family:Erebidae
Genus:Drasteria
Species: D. cailino
Binomial name
Drasteria cailino
(Lefèbvre, 1827)[1]
Synonyms
  • Heliotis cailino Lefèbvre, 1827
  • Leucanitis caylino Lederer, 1857
  • Leucanitis cailino obscura Staudinger, 1901
  • Leucanitis cailino f. baigakumensis John, 1917
  • Aleucanitis cailino

Drasteria cailino is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in Southern Europe, the Near East and Middle East up to the western Himalayas in the east. In the Levant, several isolated populations are present in Lebanon, Syria and Israel.

There are two generations per year. Adults are on wing in from May to July and in early autumn.

The larvae feed on Salix viminalis and Rosa canina.

Subspecies

  • Drasteria cailino cailino
  • Drasteria cailino medialba Wiltshire, 1961
  • Drasteria cailino tropicalis Hacker, 1999 (Saudi Arabia, Yemen)
  • Drasteria cailino orientalis Hacker, 1996 (Pakistan)

References

  1. ↑ Drasteria on taxapad.com


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