Catocala puerpera

Catocala puerpera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Genus:	Catocala
Species:	C. puerpera
Binomial name
	Catocala puerpera; (Giorna, 1791)
Synonyms
	Phalaena puerpera Giorna, 1791 ; Phalaena amasia Esper, 1804 ; Catocala syriaca Schultz, 1909 ; Noctua pellex Hübner, [1809] ; Catocala puerpera orientalis Staudinger, 1877 ; Catocala puerpera var. pallida Alphéraky, 1887 ; Catocala tarbagata Schultz, 1909 ; Catocala puerpera centralasiae Sheljuzhko, 1943 ;

Catocala puerpera is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Michel-Esprit Giorna in 1791.[1] It is found in Mediterranean and sub-Mediterranean areas of the Near East and Middle East and in North Africa.

There is one generation per year. Adults are on wing from May to June.

The larvae feed on Populus euphratica.

Subspecies

Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Catocala puerpera (Giorna 1791)". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on March 15, 2016.

Kravchenko, V. D.; Müller, G.; Orlova, O. B.; Seplyarskaya, V. N. (2004). "The Catocalinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) of Israel" (PDF). Russian Entomological Journal. 13 (3): 175–186. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-08-19 – via Internet Archive.
Fauna Europaea
Lepiforum e.V.

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