Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Superfamily Noctuoidea Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Family Erebidae | |
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Similar Dysauxes, Nudaria mundana, Setina irrorella, Setina, Atlantarctia tigrina | ||
Dysauxes punctata is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Fabricius in 1781. It is found in France, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Macedonia, Greece, Turkey, Romania, Ukraine, Russia and North Africa.
The wingspan is 20–22 mm. Adults are on wing from May to mid-September in two generations per year.
The larvae are polyphagous on low-growing plants, including Taraxacum, Senecio, Plantago and Lactuca species.
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