Biology:Wheeleria obsoletus

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Short description: Species of plume moth

Wheeleria obsoletus
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pterophoridae
Genus: Wheeleria
Species:
W. obsoletus
Binomial name
Wheeleria obsoletus
(Zeller, 1841)
Synonyms

Wheeleria obsoletus is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in France , Italy, Austria, Sardinia, Sicily, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine , Belarus , Russia , Cyprus,[1] Turkmenistan,[2] Asia Minor and western Asia.

Adults are on wing from April (the Palestinian Territories) or the end of May (Europe) to August in one generation per year.[3]

The larvae feed on black horehound (Ballota nigra), common horehound (Marrubium vulgare) and horehound (Marrubium peregrinum).[4]

References

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q7992265 entry