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Oidaematophorus lithodactyla
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pterophoridae
Genus:	Oidaematophorus
Species:	O. lithodactyla
Binomial name
Oidaematophorus lithodactyla (Treitschke, 1833)
Synonyms
List Alucita lithodactyla Treitschke, 1833 Alucita septodactyla Treitschke, 1833 Pterophorus similidactylus Dale, 1834 Pterophorus phaeodactylus Stephens, 1835 Pterophorus lithoxylodactylus Duponchel, 1838 Pterophorus lithodactylus Oidaematophorus lithodactylus

Oidaematophorus lithodactyla, also known as the dusky plume, is a moth of the family Pterophoridae found from Europe to Asia Minor and Japan. It was first described by German lepidopterist, Georg Friedrich Treitschke in 1833.

Description

The wingspan is 26–29 millimetres (1.0–1.1 in).The middle tibiae are thickened with scales in the middle and at the apex. The forewings are pale brown, irregularly mixed with grey-whitish and irrorated with black. There is a blackish subcrescentic posteriorly white-edged mark before the fissure and an elongate blackish mark on costa near beyond it and some blackish marginal dots towards the apex. The cilia are dark grey, somewhat whitish-mixed. The hindwings are rather dark fuscous with a darker dot at apex of segments. Diagnostic – a greyish forewing with an angled darker marking just inside the cleft.

Adults are on wing in July and August in western, central and northeastern Europe.

The larvae feed on common fleabane (Pulicaria dysenterica) and ploughman's-spikenard (Inula conyza). They initially feed in the shoots, but later feed on the leaves.

On 2 June 1984, larvae were found feeding on willowleaf yellowhead (Inula salicina), in Oslo.

References

1. Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London pdf This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Keys and description
2. Gielis, C., 1996. Pterophoridae. - In P. Huerner, O. Karsholt and L. Lyneborg (eds): Microlepidoptera of Europe 1: 1-222. ISBN 87-88757-36-6 ISSN 1395-9506
3. "Oidaematophorus lithodactyla (Treitschke, 1833)". Fauna Europaea. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
4. "Species feeding habits". UKMoths. Retrieved October 1, 2010.
5. "British journal of entomology and natural history" (PDF). 16–18. 2003: 163. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
6. "Norwegian Journal of Entomology" (PDF). Fauna Norvegica. Norsk zoologisk tidsskriftsentral. 1984.

External links

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