Setina flavicans

Setina flavicans is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in France and on the Iberian Peninsula.

Setina flavicans
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Setina
Species:
S. flavicans
Binomial name
Setina flavicans
(Geyer, 1836)[1]
Synonyms
  • Bombyx flavicans Geyer, 1836
  • Setina irrorella var. flavicans

The wingspan is 28–31 mm for males and 20–25 mm for females.[2]

The larvae feed on various lichen species.[3]

Subspecies
  • Setina flavicans flavicans
  • Setina flavicans pseudoirrorela de Freina & Witt, 1985 (northern part of the Iberian Peninsula and the Pyrenees and its northern ranges)

References
  1. Fauna Europaea
  2. Taxonomische Veränderungen bei den Bombyces und Sphinges Europas und Nordwestafrikas
  3. Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa


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