Paraplatyptilia fragilis

Paraplatyptilia fragilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pterophoridae
Genus: Paraplatyptilia
Species: P. fragilis
Binomial name
Paraplatyptilia fragilis
(Walsingham, 1880)
Synonyms
  • Platyptilus fragilis Walsingham, 1880

Paraplatyptilia fragilis is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It was described from the Klamath Lakes area in northern California, and has a wide range in the Great Basin, inland montane and desert ranges from eastern British Columbia to Utah, and from New Mexico to southern California and Baja California Norte in Mexico.[1]

The wingspan is 17–19 mm. Adults are on wing in April.

The larvae feed on Pentstemon cyananthus. They feed within the seed-capsules of their host plant. When full-grown, the larva leaves the capsula through a circular hole.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Review of the Neotropical species of the family Pterophoridae, part I: Ochyroticinae, Deuterocopinae, Pterophorinae (Platyptiliini, Exelastini, Oxyptilini) (Lepidoptera)
  2. ↑ Notes On Pterophoridae With Description Of A New Oidaematophorus (Lepidoptera)
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