Mansur has recently sent me a few
moths he has caught near Riyadh and managed to identify. One such moth was Anumeta asiatica a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in southwestern
Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Oman, the United Arab Emirates and in the
Arava Valley in Israel. There is one
generation per year with adults are on wing from May to August. It occurs mainly in sandy areas and
depressions with silty alluvial soils and along seasonal waterways with
contracted shrub and semi-shrub thickets often dominated by Atriplex ssp., Calligonum comosum and Ochradenus
baccats.
