Setina flavicans

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

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

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)

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