Biology:Watsonarctia deserta

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Watsonarctia deserta
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W. deserta
Binomial name
Watsonarctia deserta
(Bartel, 1902)[1]
Synonyms
  • Phalaena (Bombyx) casta Esper, 1784, preoccupied.
  • Eucharia deserta
  • Arctia casta deserta Bartel, 1902
  • Phragmatobia esperi Koçak, 1980
  • Eucharia casta sibirica Koshantschikov, 1924
  • Watsonarctia callesi Gómez Bustillo, 1979

Watsonarctia deserta (=Arctia casta) is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. 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

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q1799451 entry