''Ocnogyna clathrata'' is a

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

of the family

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. It was described by Julius Lederer in 1934. It is found in

Lebanon Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south, while Cyprus li ...

and on

Cyprus Cyprus ; tr, Kıbrıs (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Republic of Cyprus is an island country located south of the Anatolian Peninsula in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Its continental position is disputed; while it is geo ...

and

Rhodes Rhodes (; el, Ρόδος , translit=Ródos ) is the largest and the historical capital of the Dodecanese islands of Greece. Administratively, the island forms a separate municipality within the Rhodes regional unit, which is part of the So ...

."10539a ''Ocnogyna clathrata'' Lederer, 1855"
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is about 35 mm. The larvae feed on ''

Ranunculus asiaticus ''Ranunculus asiaticus'', the Persian buttercup, is a species of buttercup (''Ranunculus'') native to the eastern Mediterranean region in southwestern Asia, southeastern Europe (Crete, Karpathos and Rhodes), and northeastern Africa. It is a herb ...

''.

Subspecies

*''Ocnogyna clathrata clathrata'' (Lebanon) *''Ocnogyna clathrata cypriaca'' O. Bang-Haas, 1934 (Cyprus, Rhodes)

References

Spilosomina Moths described in 1934 {{Spilosomina-stub