Dysauxes ancilla

Dysauxes ancilla, the handmaid, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1767 12th edition of Systema Naturae. It lives in southern and central Europe, through Turkey and Armenia, over the Ural Mountains and up to the Caucasus.

Dysauxes ancilla
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Dysauxes
Species:
D. ancilla
Binomial name
Dysauxes ancilla
Synonyms
  • Phalaena Noctua ancilla Linnaeus, 1767
  • Bombyx obscura Fabricius, 1781
  • Phalaena lemopicta Fourcroy, 1785
  • Phalaena fuscoptera Fourcroy, 1785
  • Dysauxes ancilla race abundans Dannehl, 1933
  • Naclia Modesta Krulikowsky, 1895

The wingspan is 22–25 mm.

The larvae primarily feed on Taraxacum, Senecio, Plantago and Lactuca species.

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  • Kimber, Ian. "72.0344 BF2071 The Handmaid Dysauxes ancilla (Linnaeus, 1767)". UKMoths. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
  • Fauna Europaea
  • Lepiforum e. V.


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