| Wheeleria obsoletus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pterophoridae |
| Genus: | Wheeleria |
| Species: | W. obsoletus |
| Binomial name | |
| Wheeleria obsoletus (Zeller, 1841) |
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Wheeleria obsoletus is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in France, Italy, Austria, Sardinia, Sicily, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic 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 Ballota nigra, Marrubium vulgare and Marrubium peregrinum.[4]