''Lemonia balcanica'' is a species of
moth
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of the family
Brahmaeidae
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Lepidoptera ( ) is an order (biology), order of insects that includes butterfly, butterflies and moths (both are called lepidopterans). About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera are ...
(older classifications placed it in Lemoniidae). It is found in the
Balkans
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.
The
wingspan
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is .
The moth flies from September to October depending on the location.
The larvae feed on ''
Taraxacum'', ''
Leontodon
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'' and ''
Hieracium'' species.
Subspecies
*''Lemonia balcanica anatolica''
Wagner, 1931
*''Lemonia balcanica balcanica''
*''Lemonia balcanica bremeri''
(Koleanti, 1846)
*''Lemonia balcanica cis''
Zolotuhin, 1994
*''Lemonia balcanica vashlovani''
Didmanidze, 1980
Sources
* P.C.-Rougeot, P. Viette (1978). ''Guide des papillons nocturnes d'Europe et d'Afrique du Nord''. Delachaux et Niestlé (Lausanne).
References
External links
''Lemonia balcanica'' up insecta.proLepiforum.de
Brahmaeidae
Moths described in 1843
Moths of Europe
Moths of Asia
Taxa named by Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer
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