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Watsonarctia deserta

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Family
  
Arctiidae

Scientific name
  
Watsonarctia casta

Rank
  
Species

Class
  
Insecta

Genus
  
Watsonarctia

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Butterflies and moths

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Similar
  
Butterflies and moths, Chelis maculosa, Hyphoraia testudinaria, Rhyparia purpurata, Spilosoma urticae

Watsonarctia deserta (=Arctia casta) is a moth of the Arctiidae family. It is found in central and south-eastern Europe, southern Russia, southern Siberia east to Baikal Lake; also in Asia Minor, Armenia, Azerbaijan, northern Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrghyzstan and Chinese Xinjiang.

The wingspan is 26–32 mm.

The larvae feed on Asperula, Achillea and Galium species (including Galium verum and Galium odoratum).

Subspecies

  • Watsonarctia deserta deserta (Bartel, 1902) (southern and central Europe, Caucasus, north-western Kazakhstan, southern Siberia, northern Mongolia)
  • Watsonarctia deserta karduchena (de Freina, 1983) (Anatolia)
  • Watsonarctia deserta centralasiae (O. Bang-Haas, 1927) (mountains of eastern Kazakhstan, Xinjiang, eastern Tien Shan)
  • Watsonarctia deserta elbursica Dubatolov et Zahiri, 2005 (northern Iran)

    • References

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