Wheeleria obsoletus

Wheeleria obsoletus
Wheeleria obsoletus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pterophoridae
Genus: Wheeleria
Species: W. obsoletus
Binomial name
Wheeleria obsoletus
(Zeller, 1841)
Synonyms
  • Pterophorus obsoletus Zeller, 1841
  • Wheeleria obsoleta
  • Merrifieldia obsoletus
  • Pterophorus desertorum Zeller 1867
  • Pterophorus desertorium
  • Pterophorus subalternans Lederer, 1870
  • Alucita gonoscia Meyrick, 1922
  • Alucita phlomidactylus Wasserthal, 1970
  • Alucita marrubii Wasserthal, 1970
  • Aciptilus confusus Herrich-Schäffer, 1855

Wheeleria obsoletus is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in France, Italy, Austria, Sardinia, Sicily, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic Macedonia, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Cyprus[1], Turkmenistan[2], Asia Minor and western Asia.

Adults are on wing from April (the Palestinian Territories) or the end of May (Europe) to August in one generation per year.[3]

The larvae feed on Ballota nigra, Marrubium vulgare and Marrubium peregrinum.[4]

References

  1. ^ Fauna Europaea
  2. ^ Pterophoridae aus Zentralasien und angrenzenden Territorien.- 2. Teil (Lepidoptera)
  3. ^ Federmotten aus der Mongolei, Russland, der Türkei, der Balkanhalbinsel und Afrika, mit Beschreibung neuer Arten (Microlepidoptera: Pterophoridae)
  4. ^ Wheeleria at funet

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