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Xestia sexstrigata (Six-striped Rustic)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The six-striped rustic (Xestia sexstrigata) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is distributed throughout Europe apart from the far south east. This is a fairly small species with a wingspan of 36–38 mm. It has pale brown forewings marked with six dark fascia although some of these can be indistinct. The hindwings are pale buff, darker towards the margin.
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Prey / Diet

Fragaria vesca (Wild Strawberry)[1]
Hyacinthus belgicus (English bluebell)[1]
Plantago lanceolata (narrowleaf plantain)[1]
Scrophularia umbrosa (water figwort)[1]
Vinca major (greater periwinkle)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

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Attributes / relations provided by
1Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0