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Mesapamea secalis (Common Rustic)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Common Rustic (Mesapamea secalis) is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in Europe, North-West Africa, Turkey and Northern Iran. The species was formerly considered the same species as the Lesser Common Rustic Mesapamea didyma and Remm's Rustic Mesapamea remmi. All three were raised to species level. The wingspan is 27–30 mm. Adults are on wing from July to August depending on the location.
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Pollinator of 
Calluna vulgaris (heather)[3]
Stachys palustris (marsh hedgenettle)[3]

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♦ 1Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 2HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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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