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Thaumetopoea solitaria is a moth of the subfamily Thaumetopoeinae in the family Notodontidae first described by Christian Friedrich Freyer in 1838. It is found in Anatolia (including Turkey), on Cyprus, east to Syria, Israel, Lebanon, Iraq and Iran.

Thaumetopoea solitaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Notodontidae
Genus:	Thaumetopoea
Species:	T. solitaria
Binomial name
Thaumetopoea solitaria (Freyer, 1838)

The wingspan is 20–28 mm for males and 25–35 mm for females. The moths are on wing from August to September.

The larvae feed on Pistacia terebinthus, Cupressus sempervirens and Fraxinus.

Sources

• P.C.-Rougeot, P. Viette (1978). Guide des papillons nocturnes d'Europe et d'Afrique du Nord. Delachaux et Niestlé (Lausanne).

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