Autophila cerealis (Staudinger, 1871)

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FAMILY	Erebidae
SUBFAMILY	Toxocampinae
GENUS	Autophila
SPECIES	cerealis
AUTHOR	(Staudinger, 1871)
ORIGINAL COMBINATION	Spintherops Cerealis Ld.
TYPE LOCALITY	Syria.
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES	/
TYPE SPECIMEN(S)	MfN.
STATUS	Species
PUBLICATION	Staudinger O. & Wocke M. 1871. Catalog der Lepidopteren des Palaearktischen Faunengebiets. - — :1-426.
PAGINATION	139

Synonyms

NAME	AUTHOR	STATUS
amseli	Draudt, 1936	Synonym of species

Species Distribution

COUNTRY	PROVINCE/STATE	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Kuwait		Wiltshire E. P. 1952a. Lepidoptera recently taken in Arabia. - Bulletin of the Society Fouad I Entomology 36:135-174, pl. 1.	155
Oman		Wiltshire E. P. 1977b. The scientific results of the Oman flora and fauna survey 1975. Lepidoptera: Part I Families Cossidae, Pyralidae, Geometridae, Sphingidae, Arctiidae, Lymantriidae and Noctuidae. Part II A list of further Lepidoptera-Heterocera from Oman. Part III Pyral... - Journal of Oman Studies Special Rep. 1:155-178.	169
Saudi Arabia		Kiriakoff S. G. 1960e. Lépidoptères Hétérocères (partim) récoltés par P. Lippens en Jordanie et en Arabie Séoudite. - Bulletin de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique 36(35):1-12.	7
United Arab Emirates		Legrain A. & Wiltshire E. P. 1998. Provisional checklist of the Macro-Heterocera (Lepidoptera) of the UAE. - Tribulus 8(2):5-8.	8
Yemen		Rebel H. 1907a. Lepidopteren aus Südarabien und von der Insel Sokotra. - Denkschriften der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 71(2):31-130, pl. 1.	94 (as amseli)

Host Plants

FAMILY	SPECIES	COUNTRY	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Lamiaceae	Salvia sp.	Iraq	Wiltshire E. P. 1952a. Lepidoptera recently taken in Arabia. - Bulletin of the Society Fouad I Entomology 36:135-174, pl. 1.	155

*   Probably on the roots of different types of vegetables (see M. Fibiger & A. Legrain 2009: 547).