Biology:Wheeleria obsoletus
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Short description: Species of plume moth
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pterophoridae |
| Genus: | Wheeleria |
| Species: | W. obsoletus
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| Wheeleria obsoletus (Zeller, 1841)
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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
- ↑ "Wheeleria obsoletus (Zeller, 1841)". Fauna Europaea. http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=437988. Retrieved 21 June 2011.
- ↑ "Pterophoridae aus Zentralasien und angrenzenden Territorien.- 2. Teil (Lepidoptera)". Landes Museum. http://www.landesmuseum.at/pdf_frei_remote/Quad_2_0215-0226.pdf. Retrieved 21 June 2011.
- ↑ "Federmotten aus der Mongolei, Russland, der Türkei, der Balkanhalbinsel und Afrika, mit Beschreibung neuer Arten (Microlepidoptera: Pterophoridae)". Free Web. http://www.freeweb.hu/acta/five_new_pterophoridae_sp_palaearctic.pdf. Retrieved 21 June 2011.
- ↑ Wheeleria at funet
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q7992265 entry
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