Metopoceras felicina
Appearance
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Noctuidae |
Genus: | Metopoceras |
Species: | M. felicina
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Binomial name | |
Metopoceras felicina (Donzel, 1844)
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Metopoceras felicina is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Portugal, Spain, the Canary Islands, and the western parts of the Maghreb countries. This is a thermophilous species found in Thermo and Meso-Mediterranean habitats with xerophilous grasslands and light scrubland.
Adults are on wing from February to June. There is one generation per year.
Subspecies
[edit]- Metopoceras felicina felicina
- Metopoceras felicina calderana (Canary Islands)
- Metopoceras felicina purpurariae (Canary Islands)
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