Leucania punctosa

Leucania punctosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
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.

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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