Ascalenia vanelloides
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Cosmopterigidae |
| Genus: | Ascalenia |
| Species: | A. vanelloides
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| Binomial name | |
| Ascalenia vanelloides Gerasimov, 1930[1]
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Ascalenia vanelloides is a moth in the family Cosmopterigidae. It is found in Turkey, the Palestinian Territories, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
The wingspan is 8–10.1 mm.[2] Adults are on wing from April to August, probably in more than one generation per year.
The larvae possibly feed on Prosopis stephaniana.
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