Pterophorus ischnodactyla
| Pterophorus ischnodactyla | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pterophoridae |
| Genus: | Pterophorus |
| Species: | P. ischnodactyla |
| Binomial name | |
| Pterophorus ischnodactyla (Treitschke, 1833)[1] | |
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Pterophorus ischnodactyla is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is known from the South Africa, Bahrain, Oman, Yemen, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Pakistan, Mongolia, Libya, Algeria, Ukraine and southern Europe.
The species is characterized by the pale ochreous-white colour and the small black dots along the costa and dorsum of the forewing.
The larvae feed on Convolvulus cantabrica.