Fuscoptilia emarginatus

Fuscoptilia emarginatus
Fuscoptilia emarginatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pterophoridae
Genus: Fuscoptilia
Species: F. emarginatus
Binomial name
Fuscoptilia emarginatus
(Snellen, 1884)
Synonyms
  • Fuscoptilia emarginata
  • Pterophorus emarginatus Snellen, 1884
  • Mimaesoptilus emarginatus
  • Platyptilia emarginata
  • Stenoptilia emarginata
  • Fuscoptilia emarginatus
  • Marasmarcha emarginata
  • Stenoptilia nakanensis Matsumura, 1931
  • Stenoptilia sapporensis Matsumura, 1931
  • Platyptilia metricoterma Caradja, 1920

Fuscoptilia emarginatus is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in the Hokkaido, Honshu and Kyushu islands of Japan, the Kuril Islands, Korea, China and Amur. It is also known from Mongolia.[1]

The length of the forewings is 8-12 mm.

The larvae feed on Lespedeza bicolor and Lespedeza cuneata. They feed on the leaf of the host plant and pupate on the under surface of a leaf, very rarely on the upper surface. The pupa directs to the petiole. The adult appears from May to September.

References

  1. ^ Federmotten aus der Mongolei, Russland, der Türkei, der Balkanhalbinsel und Afrika, mit Beschreibung neuer Arten (Microlepidoptera: Pterophoridae)

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