Ctenoplusia limbirena

Ctenoplusia limbirena
Ctenoplusia limbirena
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Ctenoplusia
Species: C. limbirena
Binomial name
Ctenoplusia limbirena
(Staudinger, 1892)
Synonyms
  • Plusia limbirena Guenée, 1852
  • Agrapha limbirena (Guenée, 1852)

The Scar Bank Gem (Ctenoplusia limbirena) is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in south-western Europe, Africa (Lesotho, the Cape Province, KwaZulu-Natal, Transvaal, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana, Malawi and eastern and equatorial Africa), the Canary Islands, Arabia, the southern Himalayas, India, Sri Lanka, Indochina to south-eastern China, Taiwan, Sulawesi, Bali and Timor.

The wingspan is 40-45 mm.

The larvae feed on Geranium, Solanum, Nicotiana, Althea, Salvia and Primula species.

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