Plusia festucae (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 : 92

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1473586
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:8FA80F01-6B78-4677-B2A6-88DBF48801D1
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scientific name	Plusia festucae (Linnaeus, 1758)
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6. Plusia festucae (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL

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Material: 3 specimens. Foothills of Hermon Mt. , Tel Dan Nature Reserve, iv.2010, V. Kravchenko & G. Müller .

Distribution: Trans-Palearctic: from Morocco across southern and central Europe to Korea and Japan. This is the first record of the species in the Levant.

Habitat and phenology: In Europe, and probably in Israel, the species occurs in wet meadows or similar habitats. Bivoltine, in Europe flying from April to September in two partly overlapping generations.

Host plants: Iris spp. ( Iridaceae ), Carex spp. ( Cyperaceae ), Alisma spp. ( Alismataceae ) and Typha spp. ( Typhaceae ). Probably polyphagous ( Goater et al. 2003).