Watsonarctia deserta

Watsonarctia deserta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Arctiidae
Genus: Watsonarctia
Species: W. deserta
Binomial name
Watsonarctia deserta
(Bartel, 1902)[1]
Synonyms
  • Phalaena (Bombyx) casta Esper, 1784, preoccupied.
  • Eucharia deserta
  • Arctia casta deserta Bartel, 1902
  • Phragmatobia esperi Koçak, 1980
  • Eucharia casta sibirica Koshantschikov, 1924
  • Watsonarctia callesi Gómez Bustillo, 1979

Watsonarctia deserta (=Arctia casta) is a moth of the Arctiidae family. It is found in central and south-eastern Europe, southern Russia, southern Siberia east to Baikal Lake; also in Asia Minor, Armenia, Azerbaijan, northern Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrghyzstan and Chinese Xinjiang.

The wingspan is 26–32 mm.

The larvae feed on Asperula, Achillea and Galium species (including Galium verum and Galium odoratum).

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