bio.wikisort.org - Animal

Pterophorus ischnodactyla is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is known from South Africa, Bahrain, Oman, Yemen, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Pakistan, Mongolia, Libya, Algeria, Ukraine and southern Europe.

Pterophorus ischnodactyla
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pterophoridae
Genus:	Pterophorus
Species:	P. ischnodactyla
Binomial name
Pterophorus ischnodactyla (Treitschke, 1833)[1]
Synonyms
Alucita ischnodactyla Treitschke, 1833 Aciptilia actinodactyla Chrétien, 1891 Aciptilia eburnella Amsel, 1968

The species is characterized by the pale ochreous-white colour and the small black dots along the costa and dorsum of the forewing.

The larvae feed on Convolvulus cantabrica.

References

---