Calyciphora nephelodactyla
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pterophoridae |
| Genus: | Calyciphora |
| Species: | C. nephelodactyla
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Calyciphora nephelodactyla is a plume moth of the family Pterophoridae.
Distribution[]
This species can be found in Spain, France, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Serbia and Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Greece, Russia and Anatolia.[2]
Description[]
The wingspan is 21–24 mm. The forewings are pale brownish-grey with dark grey markings. The hindwings are whitish. The larvae are pale greenish, covered with long white hairs.[3][4][5]
Biology[]
Adults fly on July and August. Larvae feed on Cirsium eriophorum.[3][6][7]
References[]
- ^ Insecta.pro
- ^ Fauna Europaea
- ^ a b Calyciphora at funet
- ^ Eversmann, E. (1844): Fauna lepidopterologica volgo-uralensis exhibens lepidopterorum species quas per viginti quinque annos in provinciis Volgam fluvium inter et montes Uralenses sitis observavit et descripsit. I-XIV, 1-633.
- ^ O. Karsholt, J. Razowski (eds.), 1996. The Lepidoptera of Europe: a distributional checklist
- ^ Lepiforum.de
- ^ Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa
Categories:
- Pterophorini
- Moths described in 1844
- Moths of Asia
- Plume moths of Europe
- Taxa named by Eduard Friedrich Eversmann
- Pterophoridae stubs