Shargacucullia strigicosta

Shargacucullia strigicosta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Shargacucullia
Species: S. strigicosta
Binomial name
Shargacucullia strigicosta
(Boursin, 1940)

Shargacucullia strigicosta is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in Iraq and the Sinai in Egypt. Recently it has also been recorded from Israel and some areas of Turkey, Azerbaijan and Iran.

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

The larvae probably feed on Scrophularia species.


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 7/20/2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.