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Drasteria cailino is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Alexandre Louis Lefèbvre de Cérisy in 1827.[1] It is found in southern Europe, the Near East and Middle East up to the western Himalayas in the east. In the Levant, several isolated populations are present in Lebanon, Syria and Israel.

Drasteria cailino
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Genus:	Drasteria
Species:	D. cailino
Binomial name
Drasteria cailino (Lefèbvre, 1827)
Synonyms
Heliotis cailino Lefèbvre, 1827 Leucanitis caylino Lederer, 1857 Leucanitis cailino obscura Staudinger, 1901 Leucanitis cailino f. baigakumensis John, 1917 Aleucanitis cailino

There are two generations per year. Adults are on wing in from May to July and in early autumn.

The larvae feed on Salix viminalis and Rosa canina.

Subspecies

• Drasteria cailino cailino
• Drasteria cailino medialba Wiltshire, 1961
• Drasteria cailino tropicalis Hacker, 1999 (Saudi Arabia, Yemen)
• Drasteria cailino orientalis Hacker, 1996 (Pakistan)

References

External links

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• Kravchenko, V. D.; Müller, G.; Orlova, O. B.; Seplyarskaya, V. N. (2004). "The Catocalinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) of Israel" (PDF). Russian Entomological Journal. 13 (3): 175–186. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-08-19 – via Internet Archive.

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