Drasteria flexuosa
| Drasteria flexuosa | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Genus: | Drasteria |
| Species: | D. flexuosa |
| Binomial name | |
| Drasteria flexuosa (Ménétries, 1847) | |
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Drasteria flexuosa is a moth belonging to the Erebidae family, first described by Édouard Ménétries in 1847.[1] It is found in the semi-deserts and deserts from eastern Egypt to Israel, Jordan, Syria, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, and Afghanistan.
There are two generations per year. Adults are on wing from February to May and October to November.
The larvae feed on the leaves of Alhagi sparsifolia.
References
[edit]- ↑ Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Drasteria flexuosa (Menetries 1848)". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on March 24, 2016.
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- Kravchenko, V. D.; Müller, G.; Orlova, O. B.; Seplyarskaya, V. N. (2004). "The Catocalinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) of Israel" (PDF). Russian Entomological Journal. 13 (3): 175–186. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-08-19 – via Internet Archive.
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