Leucania zeae
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Noctuidae |
Genus: | Leucania |
Species: | L. zeae
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Binomial name | |
Leucania zeae (Duponchel, 1827)
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Leucania zeae is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in North Africa, southern Europe, Turkey, Israel, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, central Asia and western China.
Adults are on wing from March to November. There are multiple generation per year.
Recorded food plants include Arundo donax, Zea mays and other Gramineae species including cereals in Europe. It is occasionally considered a minor pest.
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Categories:
- Leucania
- Moths of Asia
- Moths of Europe
- Moths of the Middle East
- Insects of Turkey
- Taxa named by Philogène Auguste Joseph Duponchel
- Moths described in 1827
- Mythimnini stubs