Wheeleria spilodactyla
Creators
- 1. Department of Animal Biology " Marcello La Greca ", University of Catania, Via Androne 81, 95124 Catania, Italy; e-mail: dursove @ unict. it
- 2. 8 Avenue Fernard Gassion, F- 13600 La Ciotat, France
Description
Wheeleria spilodactyla (Curtis, 1927)
(Figs. 14-15) Material examined. DISTRICT OF MT. ETNA: Piano delle Ginestre (Bronte), 1,000 m a.s.l., VB8787, 25.vi.2004, 1 J; 18.vi.2005, 5 JJ 7 ♀♀; 8.ix.2005, 1 J 1 ♀; 19.ix.2005, 2 JJ (GMCI).
Biology. Adults: wingspan 17-24 mm. The adults fly from April to October. In north-eastern Sicily they have been collected in June and September. This species is attracted by artificial light but is easier to find at sunset on Marrubium vulgare. The pupae are very hairy with a cryptic appearance, and are thus hardly recognizable on the host plants. Larval host plants: Marrubium vulgare L. and Ballota nigra L. (Lamiaceae).
Range in Italy. Trentino Alto-Adige; Molise; Sardinia; Sicily (new record).
Distribution. Euro-Mediterranean. Introduced in the 1990s to Australia to control Marrubium vulgare, taken there in the early 19th century.
Remarks. Male genitalia are similar to those in specimens from Spain (ARENBERGER 1995), Great Britain (GIELIS 1996), and France (NEL 2003).
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- Cites
- Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.5342515 (DOI)
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.5342507 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Collection code
- GMCI , MT, ETNA
- Event date
- 2004-06-25 , 2005-09-19
- Family
- Pterophoridae
- Genus
- Wheeleria
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Curtis
- Species
- spilodactyla
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2004-06-25 , 2005-09-19
- Taxonomic concept label
- Wheeleria spilodactyla (Curtis, 1927) sec. Urso, Marchese & Nel, 2008
References
- GIELIS C. 1996: Pterophoridae. In: HUEMER P., KARSHOLT O. & LYNEBORG L. (eds.): Microlepidoptera of Europe. Vol. 1. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, 222 pp.
- NEL J. 2003: Atlas des Lepidopteres Pterophoridae de France. Revue de l'Association Roussillonnaise d'Entomologie 12 (Suppl.): 1 - 61.