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Ethmia quadrinotella

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Depressariidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Ethmia

Ethmia quadrinotella

Similar
  
Ethmia dodecea, Agrotis spinifera, Dysgonia torrida, Heliothis nubigera, Ancylosis

Ethmia quadrinotella is a moth in the Depressariidae family. It is found in Greece, Turkey, Armenia, Syria, the Palestinian Territories, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, north-western Karakoram, Bahrain, Arabia, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Cape Verde and northern Sudan.

The larvae have been recorded feeding on Heliotropium undulatum.

Subspecies

  • Ethmia quadrinotella quadrinotella (Greece, Turkey, Armenia, Syria, Palestinian Territories, Iran)
  • Ethmia quadrinotella quiquenotella Chrétien, 1915 (Cape Verde, Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, northern Sudan, Arabia, Bahrain, south-western Iraq, southern Iran, Afghanistan, north-western Karakoram, Tunisia)

    • References

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