Dyspessa salicicola

Dyspessa salicicola is a species of moth of the family Cossidae. It was described by Eduard Friedrich Eversmann in 1848. It is found in Greece, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Russia and Turkey.[1]

Dyspessa salicicola
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Cossidae
Genus:
Dyspessa
Species:
D. salicicola
Binomial name
Dyspessa salicicola
(Eversmann, 1848)
Synonyms
  • Cossus salicicola Eversmann, 1848
  • Dyspessa salicicola f. lutescens Silbernagel, 1944

The length of the forewings is 9–14 mm for males and 9–15 mm for females. The forewings are yellow with a row of four to five dark round spots in the postdiscal area. The hindwings are grey.[2]

Subspecies
  • Dyspessa salicicola salicicola
  • Dyspessa salicicola aschabadensis Daniel, 1962 (Central Asia)

References
  1. Fauna Europaea
  2. Yakovlev, R.V., 2005: New data on distribution and systematic of Cossidae (Lepidoptera) of Europe and adjacent territories. Eversmannia 3-4: 18-27. Full article:


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