Aporophyla canescens

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Aporophyla canescens
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Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Aporophyla
Species:
A. canescens
Binomial name
Aporophyla canescens
(Duponchel, [1826])[1]
Synonyms
  • Noctua canescens Duponchel, 1826
  • Noctua pumicosa Geyer, [1832]
  • Polia asphodeli Rambur, 1832
  • Polia plumbea Staudinger, 1895
  • Aporophyla ochracea Spuler, 1908
  • Aporophyla calida Turati, 1909
  • Aporophyla asphodelioides Turati, 1909
  • Polia (Antitype) canescens f. aritzensis Turati, 1913
  • Aporophyla plumbina Osthelder, 1933

Aporophyla canescens is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It was described by Philogène Auguste Joseph Duponchel in 1826. It is found in Italy, Switzerland, Slovenia, Croatia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, North Macedonia, Greece, Turkey, Israel, Portugal, Russia, as well as on Sardinia, Corsica, Sicily, Malta and Crete.

The wingspan is 40–45 mm.[2] Adults have been recorded on wing from August to November. The larvae feed on Asphodelus and Narcissus species.[3]

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