Emmelina monodactyla

Emmelina monodactyla
Emmelina monodactyla
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pterophoridae
Genus: Emmelina
Species: E. monodactyla
Binomial name
Emmelina monodactyla
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
  • Phalaena Alucita monodactyla Linnaeus, 1758
  • Phalaena bidactyla Hochenwarth, 1785
  • Alucita pterodactyla Hübner, 1805
  • Pterophorus flaveodactylus Amary, 1840
  • Pterophorus cineridactylus Fitch, 1855
  • Pterophorus naevosidactylus Fitch, 1855
  • Pterophorus impersonalis Walker, 1864
  • Pterophorus pergracilidactylus Packard, 1873
  • Pterophorus barberi Dyar, 1903
  • Pterophorus pictipennis Grinnell, 1908
  • Pterophorus monodactylus f. rufa Dufrane, 1960

The T-Moth or Morning-glory Plume Moth (Emmelina monodactyla) is a moth of the family Pterophoroidea. It is found in Europe, Japan, central Asia, North Africa and North America.

The wingspan is 18-27 mm. The moths fly nearly year-round.

The larvae mainly feed on Convolvulaceae species, including Atriplex (including Atriplex patula), Chenopodium (including Chenopodium album), Calystegia sepium, Calystegia spithamaea, Calystegia sodanella, Cynara cardunculus, Convolvulus arvensis, Convolvulus cantabrica, Convolvulus floridus, Convolvulus prostrates, Convolvulus tricolor, Ipomoea batatas, Ipomoea eriocarpa and Ipomoea purpurea, but also Datura stramonium and Hyoscyamus niger from the Solanaceae family.[1]

References

  1. ^ Taxonomic study of the tribe Oidaematophorini (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae) from Korea, with descriptions of the two new species

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