Calophasia sinaica

Calophasia sinaica is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Wiltshire in 1948. It is found in the eremic (desert) parts of Africa extending north to the Levant (here it has been recorded from the Arabian Peninsula, the Sinai in Egypt and Israel).

Calophasia sinaica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Calophasia
Species:
C. sinaica
Binomial name
Calophasia sinaica
(Wiltshire, 1948)

Adults are on wing from October to March. There is one generation per year.

  • Kravchenko, V. D.; Fibiger, M.; Muller, G. & Ronkay, L. (March 2005). "The Cuculliinae of Israel (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)" (PDF). SHILAP Revista de LepidopterologĂ­a. 33 (129): 83–95.


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