Amata caspia Staudinger, 1877 is a animal in the Erebidae family, order Lepidoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Amata caspia Staudinger, 1877

Amata caspia Staudinger, 1877

Amata caspia is an Arctiinae moth first described in 1877, found across parts of Eurasia, with a 19–28 mm wingspan.

Family
Genus
Amata
Order
Lepidoptera
Class
Insecta

About Amata caspia Staudinger, 1877

Amata caspia is a species of moth belonging to the subfamily Arctiinae. It was first formally described by Otto Staudinger in 1877. This moth species is distributed in south-western Russia, the southern Ural Mountains, the Caucasus, Transcaspia, Kazakhstan, and Turkey. The wingspan of Amata caspia ranges from 19 to 28 millimeters. Adult moths of this species have been recorded flying during June and July.

Photo: (c) Богинский Евгений Иванович, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Богинский Евгений Иванович · cc-by-nc

Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Lepidoptera Erebidae Amata

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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