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    Oidaematophorus lithodactyla

    Topic: Biology

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    Short description: Species of plume moth

    Oidaematophorus lithodactyla
    45.036 BF1523 Oidaematophorus lithodactyla (9355066271).jpg
    Scientific classification edit
    Kingdom: Animalia
    Phylum: Arthropoda
    Class: Insecta
    Order: Lepidoptera
    Family: Pterophoridae
    Genus: Oidaematophorus
    Species:
    O. lithodactyla
    Binomial name
    Oidaematophorus lithodactyla
    (Treitschke, 1833)
    Synonyms

    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 Germany lepidopterist, Georg Friedrich Treitschke in 1833.

    Description

    45.036 BF1523 Oidaematophorus lithodactyla, larva (9291594416).jpg

    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.

    Adults are on wing in July and August in western, central and northeastern Europe.[2]

    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.[3][4]

    On 2 June 1984, larvae were found feeding on willowleaf yellowhead (Inula salicina), in Oslo.[5]

    References

    1. ↑ 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
    2. ↑ "Oidaematophorus lithodactyla (Treitschke, 1833)". https://fauna-eu.org/cdm_dataportal/taxon/f8f1b0e1-949d-4803-9e44-d40f4d9847fd. 
    3. ↑ "Species feeding habits". UKMoths. https://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?bf=1523. 
    4. ↑ (PDF) British journal of entomology and natural history. 16-18. 2003. p. 163. https://books.google.com/books?id=FgFNAAAAYAAJ&q=Oidaematophorus+lithodactyla. 
    5. ↑ "Norwegian Journal of Entomology" (PDF). Fauna Norvegica (Norsk zoologisk tidsskriftsentral). 1984. https://books.google.com/books?id=7_RNAAAAYAAJ&q=Oidaematophorus+lithodactyla. 

    External links


    Wikidata ☰ Q7081226 entry




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