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Oidaematophorus lithodactyla

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Oidaematophorus lithodactyla
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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 lithodactyla Treitschke, 1833
    • Alucita septodactyla Treitschke, 1833
    • Pterophorus similidactylus Dale, 1834
    • Pterophorus phaeodactylus Stephens, 1835
    • Pterophorus lithoxylodactylus Duponchel, 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.

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.

Adults are on wing in July and August in western, central and northeastern Europe.[2]

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.[3][4]

On 2 June 1984, larvae were found feeding on willowleaf yellowhead (Inula salicina), in Oslo.[5]

References

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