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Alucita palodactyla
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Alucitidae
Genus:	Alucita
Species:	A. palodactyla
Binomial name
Alucita palodactyla Zeller, 1847
Synonyms
Orneodes parthenodactyla Chretien, 1915 Alucita perritodactyla Staudinger, 1859

Alucita palodactyla is a moth of the family Alucitidae. It is found in Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, the Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, Hungary and Iran.

Adults are on wing adults in May and from July to September, probably in two generations per year.

The larvae feed on Scabiosa rutaefolia. They live within the flowers and on seeds of their host plant.

References

1. Fauna Europaea
2. Provisional atlas and checklist of the Alucitidae fauna of Hungary (Lepidoptera)

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• Moths described in 1847
• Alucitidae
• Moths of Europe
• Moths of the Middle East
• Taxa named by Philipp Christoph Zeller
• Alucitoidea stubs