Agdistis paralia

Agdistis paralia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pterophoridae
Genus: Agdistis
Species: A. paralia
Binomial name
Agdistis paralia
(Zeller, 1847)[1]
Synonyms
  • Adactyla paralia Zeller, 1847

Agdistis paralia is a moth in the Pterophoridae family. It is known from Spain, France, Italy (Sardinia, Sicily), Malta, Greece, Israel, Turkmenistan, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco.[2] It has also been recorded from China (Gansu).[3]

Adults are on wing from April to September.

The larvae feed on Limonium serotinum and Limonium densissimum.

References

  1. ↑ Fauna Europaea
  2. ↑ Contribution to the Knowledge of the Pterophoridae from Pantano Longarini (South-Eastern Sicily)
  3. ↑ A taxonomic study of the genus Agdistis Hubner, [1825] 1816 from China, with description of one new species (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae: Agdistinae)


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