Calyciphora nephelodactyla

Calyciphora nephelodactyla is a plume moth of the family Pterophoridae.

Calyciphora nephelodactyla
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pterophoridae
Genus: Calyciphora
Species:
C. nephelodactyla
Binomial name
Calyciphora nephelodactyla
(Eversmann, 1844) [1]
Synonyms
  • Alucita nephelodactyla Eversmann, 1844
  • Aciptilia apollina Millière, 1883

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
  1. Insecta.pro
  2. Fauna Europaea
  3. Calyciphora at funet
  4. 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.
  5. O. Karsholt, J. Razowski (eds.), 1996. The Lepidoptera of Europe: a distributional checklist
  6. Lepiforum.de
  7. Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa


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