| Wheeleria ivae | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pterophoridae |
| Genus: | Wheeleria |
| Species: | W. ivae |
| Binomial name | |
| Wheeleria ivae (Kasy, 1960) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Wheeleria ivae is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is known from former Yugoslavia, Asia Minor, Syria and Lebanon. [1]
The larvae feed on Stachys iva .
The Pterophoridae or plume moths are a family of Lepidoptera with unusually modified wings. Though they belong to the Apoditrysia like the larger moths and the butterflies, unlike these they are tiny and were formerly included among the assemblage called "microlepidoptera".
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