Biology:Agdistis satanas
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Short description: Species of plume moth
| Agdistis satanas | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pterophoridae |
| Genus: | Agdistis |
| Species: | A. satanas
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| Binomial name | |
| Agdistis satanas Millière, 1875[1]
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Agdistis satanas is a moth in the family Pterophoridae. It is known from the Balearic Islands, Portugal, Spain , France , Corsica, Italy (Piedmont, Val d’Aosta, Latium, Apulia, Sardinia, Sicily), Malta, Germany , Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Crete, Turkey, Israel, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Morocco.
The wingspan is about 20 mm. Adults are on wing from April to September.
The larvae feed on Scabiosa candicans, Scabiosa pyrenaica, Scleranthus species and Limoniastrum monopetalum.[2]
References
Wikidata ☰ Q4691796 entry
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