Mecyna flavalis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Crambidae
- Genus
- Mecyna
- Species
- Mecyna flavalis
- Scientific Name
- Mecyna flavalis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Mecyna flavalis
Mecyna flavalis is a species of moth in the family Crambidae. It is known from most of Europe (except Ireland, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia and Ukraine) to Japan. The species was first described by Michael Denis and Ignaz Schiffermüller in 1775.
The wingspan is 25–29 mm. Adults are on wing from July to August.
The larvae feed on Galium mollugo, Artemisia campestris, Ballota, Reseda and Urtica urens.
...Mecyna flavalis in languages:
- Danish
- Gult enghalvmøl
- Dutch
- Geelwitte kruidenmot
- English
- Yellow Pearl
- Finnish
- ketokoisa
- Japanese
- キノメイガ
- Russian
- Жёлтая луговая огнёвка
- Swedish
- gyllenängsmott
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Mecyna albalis
- Mecyna andalusica
- Mecyna arroundella
- Mecyna asiaticalis
- Mecyna asinalis
- Mecyna atlanticum
- Mecyna auralis
- Mecyna babalis
- Mecyna balcanica
- Mecyna bandiamiralis
- Mecyna biternalis
- Mecyna cocosica
- Mecyna cuprinalis
- Mecyna dissipatalis
- Mecyna flavalis
- Mecyna fuscimaculalis
- Mecyna grisealis
- Mecyna indistinctalis
- Mecyna luscitialis
- Mecyna lutealis
- Mecyna luteofluvalis
- Mecyna lutulentalis
- Mecyna marcidalis
- Mecyna marioni
- Mecyna mauretanica
- Mecyna micalis
- Mecyna mustelinalis
- Mecyna prunipennis
- Mecyna quinquigera
- Mecyna salangalis
- Mecyna sefidalis
- Mecyna submedialis
- Mecyna subsequalis
- Mecyna suffusalis
- Mecyna tapa
- Mecyna tricolor
- Mecyna trinalis