Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Noctuidae Scientific name Rhyacia lucipeta | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Rhyacia Rank Species | |
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Similar Rhyacia, Rhyacia simulans, Ashworth's rustic, Spaelotis ravida, Eugnorisma depuncta | ||
The Southern Rustic (Rhyacia lucipeta) is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in Morocco, Algeria, the Pyrenees, the mountains of central Europe, Italy, the Balkans, Turkey, the Caucasus, Transcaucasia and Iraq. It is a rare migrant on the south coast of England, where it was recorded for the first time at Pulborough in Sussex in 1968. It had not been recorded again until the end of 2008.
The wingspan is 56–64 mm. Adults are on wing from June to the beginning of October in one generation.
The larvae feed on various herbaceous plants, including Cerastium, Thymus pulegioides, Tussilago farfara and Campanula rotundifolia.
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