Oidaematophorus lithodactyla
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pterophoridae |
| Genus: | Oidaematophorus |
| Species: | O. lithodactyla
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| Oidaematophorus lithodactyla (Treitschke, 1833)
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Oidaematophorus lithodactyla, also known as the dusky plume, is a moth of the family Pterophoridae found from Europe to Asia Minor and Japan. It was first described by German lepidopterist, Georg Friedrich Treitschke in 1833.
Description
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The wingspan is 26–29 millimetres (1.0–1.1 in).The middle tibiae are thickened with scales in the middle and at the apex. The forewings are pale brown, irregularly mixed with grey-whitish and irrorated with black. There is a blackish subcrescentic posteriorly white-edged mark before the fissure and an elongate blackish mark on costa near beyond it and some blackish marginal dots towards the apex. The cilia are dark grey, somewhat whitish-mixed. The hindwings are rather dark fuscous with a darker dot at apex of segments.[1] Diagnostic – a greyish forewing with an angled darker marking just inside the cleft.[2]
Adults are on wing in July and August in western, central and northeastern Europe.[3]
The larvae feed on common fleabane (Pulicaria dysenterica) and ploughman's-spikenard (Inula conyza). They initially feed in the shoots, but later feed on the leaves.[4][5]
On 2 June 1984, larvae were found feeding on willowleaf yellowhead (Inula salicina), in Oslo.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London pdf
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Keys and description
- ^ Gielis, C., 1996. Pterophoridae. - In P. Huerner, O. Karsholt and L. Lyneborg (eds): Microlepidoptera of Europe 1: 1-222. ISBN 87-88757-36-6 ISSN 1395-9506
- ^ "Oidaematophorus lithodactyla (Treitschke, 1833)". Fauna Europaea. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
- ^ "Species feeding habits". UKMoths. Retrieved October 1, 2010.
- ^ "British journal of entomology and natural history" (PDF). 16–18. 2003: 163.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ "Norwegian Journal of Entomology" (PDF). Fauna Norvegica. Norsk zoologisk tidsskriftsentral. 1984.
External links
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