title: Leucania punctosa
text: # Leucania punctosa
  
  Leucania punctosa is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found from Morocco to Libya, southern Europe, Turkey, Armenia, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, the Sinai in Egypt, Iran, Iraq and Turkmenistan.
  
  ## Technical description and variation
  
  S. punctosa Tr. (25c). Forewing luteous grey; costa paler; a grey brown shade along median vein and outer margin; veins grey: lines finely zigzag, mostly broken up into linear points; a slightly elongated whitish spot at lower angle of cell on a grey cloud; hindwing white. Larva yellowish grey, paler at sides; dorsal line fine, white, black-edged; subdorsal blackish, interrupted, whitish-edged beneath; spiracles brown in a red ring, above a white line.
  
  ## Biology
  
  Adults are on wing from October to November. There is one generation per year.
  
  The larvae feed on various Gramineae species.
  
  