Drasteria kabylaria

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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Tribe: Melipotini
Genus: Drasteria
Species: D. kabylaria
Binomial name
Drasteria kabylaria
(A. Bang-Haas, 1906)[1]
Synonyms
  • Leucanitis kabylaria Bang-Haas, 1906
  • Leucanitis cabylaria Hampson, 1913
  • Leucanitis columbina Brandt, 1941
  • Drasteria kabylaria columbina

Drasteria kabylaria is a moth of the Erebidae family. It is found from the western and central parts of the Sahara, to the Arabian Peninsula, Jordan, Sinai, south to Oman.

There are two generations per year. Adults are on wing in from March to May and October to November.

The larvae probably feed on Tamarix species.

References

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