Biology:Platyptilia cacaliae

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Short description: Species of plume moth

Platyptilia cacaliae
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pterophoridae
Genus: Platyptilia
Species:
P. cacaliae
Binomial name
Platyptilia cacaliae
T. B. Fletcher, 1920

Platyptilia cacaliae is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It was described by Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher in 1920 and it is found in India .[1]

The head is greyish fuscous and the antennae are greyish, obscurely ringed with fuscous. The thorax is greyish fuscous and the legs are whitish. The abdomen is greyish, irrorated (speckled) with fuscous. The forewings are brownish grey irrorated with white and reddish brown. The hindwings are fuscous grey, irrorated with fuscous brown.

Adults have been found flying over flowers of Cacalia coccinea. The larvae and pupae were found in the flower-heads.[2]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q7202714 entry