Cucullia syrtana Mabille, 1888

FAMILY	Noctuidae
SUBFAMILY	Cuculliinae
GENUS	Cucullia
SPECIES	syrtana
AUTHOR	Mabille, 1888
ORIGINAL COMBINATION	Cucullia syrtana, n. sp.
TYPE LOCALITY	Tunisia, Gabès, xi.
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES	/
TYPE SPECIMEN(S)	Not stated.
STATUS	Species
PUBLICATION	Mabille P. 1888a. Descriptions de quelques espèces nouvelles de Tunisie et d'Algérie. - Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France (6) 8:xlii–xliii, li–lii, lviii–lix.
PAGINATION	51–52

Species pictures

Synonyms

NAME	AUTHOR	STATUS
iranica	(Brandt, 1941)	Synonym of species

Species Distribution

COUNTRY	PROVINCE/STATE	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Algeria	Hoggar and Tassili	Rothschild W. 1915a. On the Lepidoptera collected in 1913–1914 by Herr Geyr von Schweppenburg on a journey to the Hoggar Mountains (Sahara). - Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8) 16(94):247–258; (95): 392–402.	251
Kuwait		Wiltshire E. P. 1980a. Lepidoptera: Fam. Cossidae, Limacodidae, Sesiidae, Lasiocampidae, Sphingidae, Notodontidae, Geometridae, Lymantriidae, Nolidae, Arctiidae, Agaristidae, Noctuidae, Ctenuchidae. – In: Wittmer & Büttiker (eds.), Fauna of Saudi Arabia 2. - Fauna of Saudi Arabia 2:179–240.	211
Mauritania		Rungs Ch. 1992. Premier aperçu sur la faune des lépidoptères du Sahara occidental. - Alexanor 17:335–382.
Saudi Arabia		Wiltshire E. P. 1952a. Lepidoptera recently taken in Arabia. - Bulletin of the Society Fouad I Entomology 36:135–174, pl. 1.	154
United Arab Emirates		Legrain A. & Wiltshire E. P. 1998. Provisional checklist of the Macro-Heterocera (Lepidoptera) of the UAE. - Tribulus 8(2):5–8.	6
Western Sahara		Hacker H. H. 2014. Revision of the tribe Nolini of Africa and the Western Palaearctic Region (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea, Noctuidae, Nolinae) Supplement 1. - Esperiana 19:121–179.	547

Notes: Palaearctic: Algeria, Canary Islands, Egypt (Sinai), Greece, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Malta, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia.

Host Plants

FAMILY	SPECIES	COUNTRY	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Undefined	Undefined Polyphagous		Fibiger M. & Legrain A. 2009. Order Lepidoptera, superfamily Noctuoidea. – In: van Harten, A. (ed.) Arthropod fauna of the UAE. - — 2:480—660.	595
Asteraceae	Launaea sp.	United Arab Emirates	Fibiger M. & Legrain A. 2009. Order Lepidoptera, superfamily Noctuoidea. – In: van Harten, A. (ed.) Arthropod fauna of the UAE. - — 2:480—660.	595

* Asteraceae (see Fibiger & Legrain 2009: 595).