Calyciphora nephelodactyla is a plume moth of the family Pterophoridae.
Calyciphora nephelodactyla | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Pterophoridae |
Genus: | Calyciphora |
Species: | C. nephelodactyla
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Binomial name | |
Calyciphora nephelodactyla | |
Synonyms | |
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Distribution
editThis 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
editBiology
editAdults fly on July and August. Larvae feed on Cirsium eriophorum.[3][6][7]
References
edit- ^ Insecta.pro
- ^ Fauna Europaea
- ^ a b Calyciphora at funet
- ^ 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.
- ^ O. Karsholt, J. Razowski (eds.), 1996. The Lepidoptera of Europe: a distributional checklist
- ^ Lepiforum.de
- ^ Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa