Pterophorus ischnodactyla
Pterophorus ischnodactyla | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Pterophoridae |
Genus: | Pterophorus |
Species: | P. ischnodactyla
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Binomial name | |
Pterophorus ischnodactyla (Treitschke, 1833)[1]
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Pterophorus ischnodactyla is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is known from South Africa, Bahrain, Oman, Yemen, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Pakistan, Mongolia, Libya, Algeria, Ukraine and southern Europe.
The species is characterized by the pale ochreous-white colour and the small black dots along the costa and dorsum of the forewing.
The larvae feed on Convolvulus cantabrica.
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Categories:
- Pterophorus
- Moths of Africa
- Moths of Europe
- Insects of the Arabian Peninsula
- Moths described in 1833
- Pterophoridae stubs