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Abrostola triplasia (Dark Spectacle)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Dark Spectacle (Abrostola triplasia) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found across the entire Palearctic ecozone (Europe (all countries), North Africa, Russia, Siberia, Japan).Subarctic territories with an average temperature of below 6 ° C are an exception. In the warmest and driest regions of the Mediterranean, the Middle East and the mountains in West and Central Asia, the species occurs only scattered or is entirely lacking. The wingspan is 32–38 mm.
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Prey / Diet

Centranthus ruber (red valerian)[1]
Humulus lupulus (common hops)[1]
Urtica dioica (California nettle)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

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Attributes / relations provided by
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
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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