Calophasia opalina (Esper, 1794)

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 : 92-93

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1473586
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scientific name	Calophasia opalina (Esper, 1794)
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7. Calophasia opalina (Esper, 1794) View in CoL

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Material: 1 specimen. Golan Heights, Majdal Shams, iv.2010, V. Kravchenko & G. Müller .

Distribution: Mediterranean–Iranian: Southern Europe, Turkey, Iran, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Mongolia. In the Levant there is an old record from Lebanon ( Ellison & Wiltshire 1939).

Habitat and phenology: In Europe, this is a xerothermic species of stony steppes and grasslands. Bivoltine, in Europe the adults are on the wings in April–June and July–September.

Host plants: Linaria spp. ( Plantaginaceae ), Antirrhinum spp. ( Plantaginaceae ) and Delphinium spp. ( Ranunculaceae ) ( Ronkay & Ronkay 1995).