Nycteola asiatica

Nycteola asiatica, the eastern nycteoline, is a moth of the family Nolidae. The species was first described by Leonid Konstantinovich Krulikovsky in 1904. It is found in most of Europe and east across the Palearctic to Japan.

Caterpillar

Nycteola asiatica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Nolidae
Genus:
Nycteola
Species:
N. asiatica
Binomial name
Nycteola asiatica
(Krulikovsky, 1904)
Synonyms
  • Sarrothripus populana
  • Sarrothripus hungarica
  • Nycteola pseudasiatica

The wingspan is 22–25 mm. It closely resembles Nycteola revayana and is separable only by genitalic characters. The moth flies in two generations from mid-June to September and from March to April depending on the location.

The larvae feed on Salix and Populus species.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Nycteola asiatica.
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