Alucita cymatodactyla

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Alucita cymatodactyla
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Alucitidae
Genus: Alucita
Species:
A. cymatodactyla
Binomial name
Alucita cymatodactyla
Zeller, 1852
Synonyms
  • Alucita baldizzonella Nel, 2001

Alucita cymatodactyla is a moth of the family Alucitidae. It is found in France, Spain, Italy, Slovenia, Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia[1] and Iran, Israel, Lebanon and Turkey. The habitat consists of dry and semi-dry closed grasslands and riverine ash-alder woodlands.[2]

Adults emerge in September, hibernate, then are again found in spring, from April to early July.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Fauna Europaea[dead link]
  2. ^ Fazekas, Imre (2010). "Provisional atlas and checklist of the Alucitidae fauna of Hungary (Lepidoptera)". Natura Somogyiensis (17): 257–271. doi:10.24394/NatSom.2010.17.257.