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Adscita albanica
Adscita albanica is a moth of the family Zygaenidae. It has a disjunct distribution, which included south-eastern France, Switzerland (Kanton Wallis), in Italy, Slovenia, North Macedonia, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Ukraine, the southern part of European Russia and the Caucasus.
The length of the forewings is 9.5–12.0 mm (0.37–0.47 in) for males and 8.5–11.5 mm (0.33–0.45 in) for females. Adults are on wing from the end of May (Crimea) to mid June (Albania and Switzerland). They feed on the flower nectar of Geranium species.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 333236.