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Metopoceras solituda is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Brandt in 1938. It is found in the eremic (desert) parts of Africa, north to south-western Iran and the Near East, where it occurs in Saudi Arabia, the Sinai in Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.

Metopoceras solituda
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Noctuidae
Genus:	Metopoceras
Species:	M. solituda
Binomial name
Metopoceras solituda (Brandt, 1938)

Adults are on wing from March to April. There is one generation per year.

Subspecies

• Metopoceras solituda solituda
• Metopoceras solituda eutychina (Israel, ...)

External links

• Kravchenko, V. D.; Fibiger, M.; Muller, G. & Ronkay, L. (March 2005). "The Cuculliinae of Israel (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)" (PDF). SHILAP Revista de Lepidopterología. 33 (129): 83–95.

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