Fuscoptilia emarginatus

Fuscoptilia emarginatus
Scientific 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 Fuscoptilia emarginatus Marasmarcha emarginata Stenoptilia nakanensis Matsumura, 1931 Stenoptilia sapporensis Matsumura, 1931 Platyptilia metricoterma Caradja, 1920

Fuscoptilia emarginatus is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. 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.^[1]

The length of the forewings is 8–12 mm.

The larvae feed on Lespedeza bicolor and Lespedeza cuneata. They feed on the leaf of the host plant and pupate on the under surface of a leaf, very rarely on the upper surface. The pupa directs to the petiole. The adult appears from May to September.

References

1. Federmotten aus der Mongolei, Russland, der Türkei, der Balkanhalbinsel und Afrika, mit Beschreibung neuer Arten (Microlepidoptera: Pterophoridae)

External links

• Taxonomic And Biological Studies Of Pterophoridae Of Japan (Lepidoptera)
• Japanese Moths