Nippoptilia vitis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Pterophoridae |
Genus: | Nippoptilia |
Species: | N. vitis |
Binomial name | |
Nippoptilia vitis (Sasaki, 1913) | |
Synonyms | |
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Nippoptilia vitis (grape plume moth) is a moth of the family Pterophoridae, that is known from Japan (Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Tsushima), Korea, Taiwan, China and Thailand.
The wingspan is about 11 millimetres (0.43 in) [1] and the length of the forewings is 7–8 millimetres (0.28–0.31 in).
The larvae feed on Ampelopsis glandulosa , Cayratia japonica , Parthenocissus tricuspidata , Vitis thunbergii and Vitis vinifera . They feed on the flowers leaves of their host plants. When feeding on the leaf of Cayratia japonica, it eats a leaf from the under surface. The pupal period lasts for about a week.
Theretra japonica is a moth of the family Sphingidae first described by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1869.
Deuterocopus socotranus is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found from India and Sri Lanka to Taiwan and Japan and through south-east Asia to New Guinea and Australia, where it is found from Townsville to Brisbane in Queensland. It is also present in Africa, Oman and Yemen.
Nippoptilia cinctipedalis is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Australia, Korea, Japan (Kyushu), China, Micronesia, the Republic of Palau and Vietnam.
Tomotilus celebratus is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It has been reported from Australia, India, Japan and Indonesia (Java). Until recently the species was known as Tomotilus saitoi, but the earlier name Oxyptilus celebratus has been recognised as an earlier reference to this same species.
Deuterocopus albipunctatus is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. The species was described by Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher in 1910. It is known from Japan, Korea and China.
Amblyptilia japonica is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is known from Japan (Honshu) and Korea.
Paraplatyptilia optata is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is known from Japan (Kyushu) and Korea.
Nippoptilia issikii is a moth of the family Pterophoridae, that is known from Japan (Hokkaido), and Korea and China.
Stenodacma wahlbergi is a moth of the family Pterophoridae described by Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1851. It is known from Japan, China, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Sri Lanka, India, Central, East and South Africa, St. Helena, Mauritius, the Seychelles and Rodrigues. It has recently been recorded from Vietnam. Records for Australia were based on synonymisation with Stenodacma pyrrhodes.
Hellinsia ishiyamanus is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is known from Japan, Korea and China.
Hellinsia albidactylus is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is known from Japan (Honshu), Korea, China and Russia.
Hellinsia distinctus is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is found from Europe to India, Korea, Japan, China and Russia. Within Europe, it is found from Germany and the Benelux east to Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania, from Italy north to Fennoscandia, and in Greece, Estonia, Latvia and northern and central Russia.
Hellinsia nigridactylus is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is known from Japan, Korea, China and Russia.
Oidaematophorus iwatensis is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is known from Japan (Honshu), Korea and China.
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.
Emmelina argoteles is a moth of the family Pterophoridae found in Asia and Europe. It was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1922.
Pselnophorus vilis is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It known from Japan, Amur, Korea and China.
Nippoptilia spinosa is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is known from Papua New Guinea.
Nippoptilia distigmata is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is known from Korea.
Rhagastis mongoliana is a moth of the family Sphingidae.
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