Setina flavicans

Setina flavicans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Superfamily:Noctuoidea
Family:Erebidae
Genus:Setina
Species: S. flavicans
Binomial name
Setina flavicans
(Geyer, 1836)[1]
Synonyms
  • Bombyx flavicans Geyer, 1836
  • Setina irrorella var. flavicans

Setina flavicans is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in France and on the Iberian Peninsula.

The wingspan is 28–31 mm for males and 20–25 mm for females.[2]

The larvae feed on various lichen species.[3]

Subspecies

  • Setina flavicans flavicans
  • Setina flavicans pseudoirrorela de Freina & Witt, 1985 (northern part of the Iberian Peninsula and the Pyrenees and its northern ranges)

References

  1. ↑ Fauna Europaea
  2. ↑ Taxonomische Veränderungen bei den Bombyces und Sphinges Europas und Nordwestafrikas
  3. ↑ Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa


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