The wingspan is 18–22 mm. Adults have a moon-shaped creamy-white marking at the cleft of their brownish forewing, hence the names crescent plume and M. lunaedactyla. Adults are on wing from June to August.[2]
marasmarcha, lunaedactyla, also, known, crescent, plume, moth, family, pterophoridae, found, most, europe, first, described, adrian, hardy, haworth, 1811, scientific, classification, domain, eukaryota, kingdom, animalia, phylum, arthropoda, class, insecta, ord. Marasmarcha lunaedactyla also known as the crescent plume is a moth of the family Pterophoridae found in most of Europe It was first described by Adrian Hardy Haworth in 1811 Marasmarcha lunaedactyla Scientific classification Domain Eukaryota Kingdom Animalia Phylum Arthropoda Class Insecta Order Lepidoptera Family Pterophoridae Genus Marasmarcha Species M lunaedactyla Binomial name Marasmarcha lunaedactyla Haworth 1811 1 Synonyms List Alucita lunaedactyla Haworth 1811 Alucita phaeodactyla Hubner 1813 Pterophorus agrorum Herrich Schaffer 1855 Marasmarcha altaica Krulikowski 1906 Marasmarcha agrorum var tuttodactyla Chapman 1906 Contents 1 Description 2 Distribution 3 References 4 External linksDescription editThe wingspan is 18 22 mm Adults have a moon shaped creamy white marking at the cleft of their brownish forewing hence the names crescent plume and M lunaedactyla Adults are on wing from June to August 2 The larvae feed on the flowers and young shoots of Ononis species including common restharrow Ononis repens spiny restharrow Ononis spinosa yellow restharrow Ononis natrix round leaved restharrow Ononis rotundifolia and Ononis arvensis Pupation takes place along a shoot or on a leaf of the food plant Distribution editThe crescent plume is found in most of Europe except Ireland and most of the Balkan Peninsula References edit Marasmarcha lunaedactyla Haworth 1811 Fauna Europaea Retrieved 12 July 2020 Kimber Ian 45 023 BF1495 Marasmarcha lunaedactyla Haworth 1811 UKmoths Retrieved 12 July 2020 External links editmicrolepidoptera nl nbsp This article on a moth of tribe Exelastini is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Marasmarcha lunaedactyla amp oldid 1156190224, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
