Drasteria caucasica
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Genus: | Drasteria |
| Species: | D. caucasica
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| Binomial name | |
| Drasteria caucasica (Kolenati, 1848)[1]
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Drasteria caucasica is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in Romania, north-eastern Bulgaria, southern Moldova, southern Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Daghestan, Armenia, Iraq, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kyrghyzstan, China (Xinjiang, Tibet) and Mongolia.[2]
The wingspan is 29–32 mm. Adults are on wing from May to August.
The larvae feed on Eleagnus, Hippophae (including Hippophae rhamnoides) and Paliurus species.
References
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Drasteria caucasica.
- ^ Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Drasteria caucasica (Kolenati 1846)". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on March 24, 2016.
- ^ "Naturkundliches Informationssystem". Archived from the original on 2018-07-02. Retrieved 2015-02-17.