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Metopoceras solituda

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Metopoceras solituda
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Metopoceras
Species:
M. solituda
Binomial name
Metopoceras solituda
(Brandt, 1938)

Metopoceras solituda is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Brandt in 1938. It is found in the eremic (desert) parts of Africa, north to south-western Iran and the Near East, where it occurs in Saudi Arabia, the Sinai in Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.

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

Subspecies

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