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Denticucullus pygmina (small wainscot)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Small Wainscot (Denticucullus pygmina) is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in most of Europe, ranging from northern Spain, through Portugal as far north as Finland. In the east it is found across the Palearctic to the Russian Far East and West Siberia.It is also found in North Africa Turkey, the Caucasus region and North Iran.
View Wikipedia Record: Denticucullus pygmina

Prey / Diet

Carex acutiformis (lesser pond sedge)[1]
Carex flacca (heath sedge)[2]
Carex nigra (smooth black sedge)[2]
Eriophorum angustifolium (tall cottongrass)[2]
Glyceria maxima (reed mannagrass)[2]

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Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 2Biological 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