Wheeleria obsoletus

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Wheeleria obsoletus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pterophoridae
Genus: Wheeleria
Species:
W. obsoletus
Binomial name
Wheeleria obsoletus
(Zeller, 1841)
Synonyms
List
    • Pterophorus obsoletusZeller, 1841
    • Wheeleria obsoleta
    • Merrifieldia obsoletus
    • Pterophorus desertorumZeller 1867
    • Pterophorus desertorium
    • Pterophorus subalternansLederer, 1870
    • Alucita gonosciaMeyrick, 1922
    • Alucita phlomidactylusWasserthal, 1970
    • Alucita marrubiiWasserthal, 1970
    • Aciptilus confususHerrich-Schäffer, 1855

Wheeleria obsoletus is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in France, Italy, Austria, Sardinia, Sicily, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Cyprus, [1] Turkmenistan, [2] Asia Minor and western Asia.

Adults are on wing from April (the Palestinian Territories) or the end of May (Europe) to August in one generation per year. [3]

The larvae feed on black horehound ( Ballota nigra ), common horehound ( Marrubium vulgare ) and horehound ( Marrubium peregrinum ). [4]

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References

  1. "Wheeleria obsoletus (Zeller, 1841)". Fauna Europaea. Archived from the original on October 14, 2012. Retrieved 21 June 2011.
  2. "Pterophoridae aus Zentralasien und angrenzenden Territorien.- 2. Teil (Lepidoptera)" (PDF). Landes Museum. Retrieved 21 June 2011.
  3. Fazekas, Imre (2003). "Federmotten aus der Mongolei, Russland, der Türkei, der Balkanhalbinsel und Afrika, mit Beschreibung neuer Arten (Microlepidoptera: Pterophoridae)" [Five new species, distribution records of plume moths from Mongolia, Russia, Turkey, Balkans and the Africa (Microlepidoptera: Pterophoridae)]. Folia comloensis (in German). 12: 5–24.
  4. Wheeleria at funet