Brahmaea tancrei
Appearance
Siberian owl moth | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Brahmaeidae |
Genus: | Brahmaea |
Species: | B. tancrei
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Binomial name | |
Brahmaea tancrei Austaut, 1896
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Brahmaea tancrei, the Siberian owl moth, is a moth in the family Brahmaeidae. It was described by Jules Léon Austaut in 1896. It is found from Russia (Amur, Siberia and in the Russian Far East[1]) to Korea and China and south to Indonesia.
Adults are on wing in April, probably in one generation per year.
Larvae have been recorded feeding on Ligustrum ovalifolium and Ligustrum vulgare.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Volodymyr Izerskyy (1999). Бомбикоидные чешуекрылые и хохлатки Сибири и Дальнего Востока [Brachmaeidae lepidopterous insects of Siberia and the Far Eas]. Kiev.: Gnozis. ISBN 966-7569-07-1.
- ^ silkmoths