Fuscoptilia emarginatus

Fuscoptilia emarginatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pterophoridae
Genus: Fuscoptilia
Species:
F. emarginatus
Binomial name
Fuscoptilia emarginatus
(Snellen, 1884)
Synonyms
  • Fuscoptilia emarginata
  • Pterophorus emarginatus Snellen, 1884
  • Mimaesoptilus emarginatus
  • Platyptilia emarginata
  • Stenoptilia emarginata
  • Marasmarcha emarginata
  • Marasmarcha bajanica Fazekas, 2003[1]
  • Stenoptilia nakanensis Matsumura, 1931
  • Stenoptilia sapporensis Matsumura, 1931
  • Platyptilia metricoterma Caradja, 1920

Fuscoptilia emarginatus is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in the Hokkaido, Honshu and Kyushu islands of Japan, the Kuril Islands, Korea, China and Amur. It is also known from Mongolia.[2]

The length of the forewings is 8–12 mm.

The larvae feed on Lespedeza bicolor and Lespedeza cuneata. The adult appears from May to September.

References

  1. ^ Hobern, Donald (5 May 2023). "Family Pterophoridae". Catalogue of the Pterophoroidea of the World. Retrieved 11 May 2023.
  2. ^ Fazekas, Imre (2003). "Federmotten aus der Mongolei, Russland, der Türkei, der Balkanhalbinsel und Afrika, mit Beschreibung neuer Arten (Microlepidoptera: Pterophoridae)" [Five new species, distribution records of plume moths from Mongolia, Russia, Turkey, Balkans and the Africa (Microlepidoptera: Pterophoridae)]. Folia comloensis (in German). 12: 5–24.
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