Ascalenia echidnias

Ascalenia echidnias
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Cosmopterigidae
Genus: Ascalenia
Species: A. echidnias
Binomial name
Ascalenia echidnias
(Meyrick, 1891)
Synonyms
  • Elachista echidnias Meyrick, 1891
  • Ascalenia oranella D. Lucas, 1939
  • Ascalenia satellita Gozmany, 1960
  • Ascalenia signatella Chretien, 1915

Ascalenia echidnias is a moth in the Cosmopterigidae family. It is found on Madeira, Sardinia and Malta[1] and from North Africa to Asia Minor and Iran. The habitat consists of dry or desert-like areas.[2]

The wingspan is about 9 mm.[3] Adults have been recorded from April to June and from September to October.

References

  1. ↑ Fauna Europaea
  2. ↑ Faunistic notes on Momphidae, Batrachedridae, Stathmopodidae and Cosmopterigidae from the Maltese Islands
  3. ↑ lepiforum.de
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