Ascalenia echidnias

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Ascalenia echidnias
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Cosmopterigidae
Genus: Ascalenia
Species:
A. echidnias
Binomial name
Ascalenia echidnias
(Meyrick, 1891)
Synonyms [1]
  • Elachista echidniasMeyrick, 1891
  • Ascalenia oranellaD. Lucas, 1939
  • Ascalenia satellitaGozmany, 1960
  • Ascalenia signatellaChretien, 1915

Ascalenia echidnias is a moth in the family Cosmopterigidae. It is found on Madeira, Sardinia and Malta [2] and from North Africa to Asia Minor and Iran. The habitat consists of dry or desert-like areas. [3]

The wingspan is about 9 mm (0.35 in). [4] Adults have been recorded from April to June and from September to October.

References

  1. ↑ Savela, Markku (ed.). "Ascalenia". Lepidoptera and some other life forms. Retrieved 23 August 2020– via FUNET.
  2. ↑ Fauna Europaea
  3. ↑ "Faunistic notes on Momphidae, Batrachedridae, Stathmopodidae and Cosmopterigidae from the Maltese Islands" Archived 2012-03-20 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ lepiforum.de


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