Mesapamea secalis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Kravchenko, Vasiliy D., Poltavsky, Alexander N. & Müller, Günter C., 2018, Addendum to the Israeli Noctuoidea fauna (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae, Erebidae, Israel Journal of Entomology (Oxford, England) 48 (1), pp. 89-98 : 94

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1473586
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:8FA80F01-6B78-4677-B2A6-88DBF48801D1
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treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Mesapamea secalis (Linnaeus, 1758)
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11. Mesapamea secalis (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL

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Material: 1 specimen. Meron Nature Reserve , forest glade, v.2010, V. Kravchenko & G. Müller .

Distribution: Mediterranean–Turanian: Morocco, Algeria, all over central and southern Europe to central Asia. In the Levant the species has been recorded in Lebanon ( Hacker 2001).

Habitat and phenology: In Europe , the species occurs in wet grasslands; in Israel, it probably prefers the same type of habitat. Univoltine, in Europe flying in May– August ( Fibiger & Hacker 2007) .

Host plants: Different species of the Poaceae .