Autophila limbata is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Otto Staudinger in 1871. It is found in southern France, southern Italy, the Iberian Peninsula, Greece, the Crimea, the Near East, Iran, Transcaucasia and Turkmenistan.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Genus: | Autophila |
| Species: | A. limbata
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| Binomial name | |
| Autophila limbata (Staudinger, 1871)
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There is one generation per year. Adults are on wing from May to July.
The larvae feed on Astragalus echinus and Onobrychis species.
Subspecies
edit- Autophila limbata limbata
- Autophila limbata lydia
External links
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Wikispecies has information related to Autophila limbata.
- Fauna Europaea
- Lepiforum e.V.
- Kravchenko, V. D.; Müller, G.; Orlova, O. B.; Seplyarskaya, V. N. (2004). "The Catocalinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) of Israel" (PDF). Russian Entomological Journal. 13 (3): 175–186. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-08-19 – via Internet Archive.
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