Drasteria kabylaria

Drasteria kabylaria
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Genus:	Drasteria
Species:	D. kabylaria
Binomial name
	Drasteria kabylaria; (A. Bang-Haas, 1906)
Synonyms
	Leucanitis kabylaria A. Bang-Haas, 1906; Leucanitis cabylaria Hampson, 1913; Leucanitis columbina Brandt, 1941; Drasteria kabylaria columbina;

Drasteria kabylaria is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Andreas Bang-Haas in 1906.^[1] It is found from the western and central parts of the Sahara, to the Arabian Peninsula, Jordan, Sinai, south to Oman.

There are two generations per year. Adults are on wing in from March to May and October to November.

The larvae probably feed on Tamarix species.

References

^ Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Drasteria kabylaria (Bang-Haas 1906)". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on March 24, 2016.

Kravchenko, V. D.; Müller, G.; Orlova, O. B.; Seplyarskaya, V. N. (2004). "The Catocalinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) of Israel" (PDF). Russian Entomological Journal. 13 (3): 175–186. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-08-19 – via Internet Archive.
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