Anarta stigmosa

Anarta stigmosa
Anarta stigmosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Anarta
Species: A. stigmosa
Binomial name
Anarta stigmosa
(Christoph, 1887)
Synonyms
  • Mamestra stigmosa Christoph, 1887
  • Discestra stigmosa
  • Calocestra stigmosa

Anarta stigmosa is a species of moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from South-eastern Europe, Turkey, Israel and Iran to central Asia, southern Siberia, China and Mongolia.

Adults are on wing from April to May in Israel and from May to July and from August to October in Italy in two generations.

The larvae feed on various species of Atriplex, Salsola and Chenopodium and probably other halophilous shrubs.

Subspecies

  • Anarta stigmosa stigmosa
  • Anarta stigmosa atlantica (France, Corsica, Italy)

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