Oidaematophorus lithodactyla

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Oidaematophorus lithodactyla
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Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pterophoridae
Genus: Oidaematophorus
Species:
O. lithodactyla
Binomial name
Oidaematophorus lithodactyla
(Treitschke, 1833)
Synonyms
List
    • Alucita lithodactylaTreitschke, 1833
    • Alucita septodactylaTreitschke, 1833
    • Pterophorus similidactylusDale, 1834
    • Pterophorus phaeodactylusStephens, 1835
    • Pterophorus lithoxylodactylusDuponchel, 1838
    • Pterophorus lithodactylus
    • Oidaematophorus lithodactylus

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.

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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]

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References

  1. ↑ Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London pdf PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain . Keys and description
  2. ↑ 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
  3. ↑ "Oidaematophorus lithodactyla (Treitschke, 1833)". Fauna Europaea. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  4. ↑ "Species feeding habits". UKMoths. Retrieved October 1, 2010.
  5. ↑ "British journal of entomology and natural history" (PDF). 16–18. 2003: 163.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. ↑ "Norwegian Journal of Entomology" (PDF). Fauna Norvegica. Norsk zoologisk tidsskriftsentral. 1984.

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