''Yponomeuta meridionalis'' 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

Yponomeutidae : ''Certain members of the unrelated snout moths (Pyralidae) are also known as "ermine moths." Spilosoma lubricipeda is an unrelated moth with the common name "white ermine."'' The family Yponomeutidae are known as the ermine moths, with severa ...

. It is found in

Tajikistan Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centr ...

and is also recorded from the

Levant The Levant () is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of Western Asia. In its narrowest sense, which is in use today in archaeology and other cultural contexts, it is eq ...

. Larvae have been recorded on '' Crataegus korolkowii'', ''

Crataegus songarica ''Crataegus songarica'' is an Asian species of hawthorn with black fruit that is sometimes used medicinally. It is closely related to ''Crataegus ambigua'', a species that has red fruit. Distribution and ecology The native range of the species ...

'' and '' Crataegus turkestanica''.

External links

New Records Of Yponomeutoid Moths (Lepidoptera, Yponomeutidae, Plutellidae) From Israel
Yponomeutidae Moths of the Middle East Moths described in 1972 {{Yponomeutidae-stub