Animalia > Arthropoda > Insecta > Lepidoptera > Erebidae > Canararctia > Canararctia rufescens

Canararctia rufescens (Dusky snailfish; Polka-dot snailfish; Variegated snailfish)

Synonyms: Liparis rufescens (homotypic)
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Wikipedia Abstract

Canararctia rufescens is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is endemic to La Gomera and Tenerife. The wingspan is 48–66 millimetres (1.9–2.6 in). The moth flies the whole year. The larvae feed on various plants, including Myrica faya, Rumex lunaria, Kleinia neriifolia, Ricinus communis, Nicotiana glauca and Sonchus congestus.
View Wikipedia Record: Canararctia rufescens

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Ivvavik National Park II 2382752 Yukon, Canada
Saguenay - St. Lawrence Marine Park National Marine Conservation Area II 310822 Canada

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Consumers

Parasitized by 
Diplocotyle olrikii[3]
Neophasis oculata[3]
Spathebothrium simplex[3]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit 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.
♦ 2The role of capelin (Mallotus villosus) in the foodweb of the Barents Sea, A. V. Dolgov, ICES Journal of Marine Science, 59: 1034–1045. 2002
♦ 3Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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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