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Catocala nymphaea (Esper, 1787)

Fetnassi, Nidal, Er-rguibi, Omar, Aglagane, Abdessamad, Ghamizi, Mohamed & Õunap, Erki, 2025, Updates to the checklist of nocturnal Macroheterocera (Lepidoptera) of the Central High Atlas of Morocco: One new species added for Morocco, Biodiversity Data Journal 13, pp. e 137839-e 137839 : e137839-

publication ID

 https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.13.e137839

DOI

 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14761642

persistent identifier

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scientific name

 Catocala nymphaea (Esper, 1787)
status

 

Catocala nymphaea (Esper, 1787) View in CoL

Notes

We recorded 1,701 specimens from Taddart. The species is known to feed on oaks ( Quercus spp .) as larvae. Though no oaks were growing at our study site, a forest of green oak ( Quercus ilex ) is located approximately 1 km away at an altitude of approximately 1700 m. Significant insect-driven damage to the foliage of oaks was detected there during our study period. Both C. nymphaea and C. nymphagoga have been considered as harmful defoliators in their larval stages, affecting various species of oaks in the Mediterranean Basin. This impact has been documented in several studies ( Arahou 2008, Bouchaour-Djabeur 2013, Tiberi et al. 2016, Kacha et al. 2017).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Erebidae

Genus

Catocala

Specimens