Biology:Buszkoiana

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Short description: Monotypic genus of plume moths

Buszkoiana
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pterophoridae
Tribe: Platyptiliini
Genus: Buszkoiana
Koçak, 1981
Species:
B. capnodactylus
Binomial name
Buszkoiana capnodactylus
(Zeller, 1841)[1]
Synonyms
  • Pterophorus capnodactylus Zeller, 1841
  • Richardia capnodactylus
  • Platyptilia diversicilia Filipjev, 1931

Buszkoiana is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae, containing only one species, Buszkoiana capnodactylus, which is known from Hungary, Poland , southern Germany , Denmark , the southern tip of the Netherlands,[2] Belgium, Italy, Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Albania, Ukraine and southern Russia .

The moth is 18–24 mm for males and 22–27 mm for females.

The larvae feed on Petasites hybridus.

Taxonomy

Buszkoiana is the replacement name for Richardia Buszko, 1978

References

Wikidata ☰ Q5002269 entry