Caradrina flava

Caradrina flava
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Caradrina
Species: C. flava
Binomial name
Caradrina flava
(Oberthür, 1876)[1]
Synonyms
  • Paradrina flava
  • Athetis approximans Rothschild, 1914

Caradrina flava is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It was described by Oberthur in 1876. It is found in Spain and Greece and on Malta and the Canary Islands,[2] as well as from the Sahara to the Arabian Peninsula, Israel, Jordan, the Levant, Iran and Iraq.[3][4]

There are two generations per year with adults on wing from October to December and again from February to April.

References

  1. ↑ Fauna Europaea
  2. ↑ Caradrina at funet
  3. ↑ euroleps.ch
  4. ↑ The tribes Prodeniini and Caradrinini of Israel (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae, Xyleninae)
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