Autophila limbata
Autophila limbata is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Otto Staudinger in 1871. It is found in southern France, southern Italy, the Iberian Peninsula, Greece, the Crimea, the Near East, Iran, Transcaucasia and Turkmenistan.
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There is one generation per year. Adults are on wing from May to July.
The larvae feed on Astragalus echinus and Onobrychis species.
Subspecies
- Autophila limbata limbata
- Autophila limbata lydia
External links
Wikispecies has information related to Autophila limbata.
- Fauna Europaea
- Lepiforum e.V.
- 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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