Schrankia taenialis
| White-line snout | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Genus: | Schrankia |
| Species: | S. taenialis
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| Binomial name | |
| Schrankia taenialis (Hübner, 1809)
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Schrankia taenialis, the white-line snout, is a species of moth of the family Erebidae. It is found from Central Europe to Sardinia, Sicily, North Turkey and Azerbaijan.
Technical description and variation[]
H. taenialis Hbn. (= albistrigatis Haw., albistrigatus Stph., acuminalis H.-Sch., albistrigalis Guen.) Forewing brownish ; a fine black dash beneath costa at base; inner line dentate, blackish ; outer black, outwardly whitish-edged, indistinct towards costa, straight and conspicuous in lower half; cellspot dark, obscure, paler posteriorly ; subterminal line pale, indistinct ; hindwing light grey. [1]The wingspan is 18–24 mm.
Biology[]
Adults are on wing in summer. There are two generations per year.
The larvae feed on Melampyrum, Calluna and Thymus species
References[]
- ^ Warren. W. in Seitz, A. Ed., 1914 Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde, Verlag Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart Band 3: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen eulenartigen Nachtfalter, 1914
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- Moths of Europe
- Moths of Asia
- Moths of the Middle East
- Hypenodinae
- Taxa named by Jacob Hübner
- Moths described in 1809
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