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Dyspessa salicicola is a species of moth of the family Cossidae. It was described by Eduard Friedrich Eversmann in 1848. It is found in Greece, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Russia and Turkey.[1]

Dyspessa salicicola
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Cossidae
Genus:	Dyspessa
Species:	D. salicicola
Binomial name
Dyspessa salicicola (Eversmann, 1848)
Synonyms
Cossus salicicola Eversmann, 1848 Dyspessa salicicola f. lutescens Silbernagel, 1944

The length of the forewings is 9–14 mm for males and 9–15 mm for females. The forewings are yellow with a row of four to five dark round spots in the postdiscal area. The hindwings are grey.[2]

Subspecies

• Dyspessa salicicola salicicola
• Dyspessa salicicola aschabadensis Daniel, 1962 (Central Asia)

References

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