Adaina microdactyla

Adaina microdactyla
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pterophoridae
Genus:	Adaina
Species:	A. microdactyla
Binomial name
Adaina microdactyla (Hübner, 1813)
Synonyms
Alucita microdactyla Hubner, 1813 Pterophorus microdactylus Leioptilus microdactylus Adaina microdactylus Pterophorus carphodactylus Stephens, 1834 Adaina montivola Meyrick, 1928 Adaina subflavescens Meyrick, 1930 Oidaematophorus madecasseus Gibeaux, 1994[1]

Adaina microdactyla is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It has a wide distribution and is known from the Palearctic ecozone (from Europe to Korea, Japan and China), Asia Minor, Iran, Vietnam, the Solomon Islands, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. It is also found in Africa, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Madagascar.

The wingspan is 13–17 mm. Adults are on wing in May and June and again in August in two generations in western Europe.

The larvae feed on Eupatorium cannabinum, Pluchea indica, Solidago virgaurea and Brassica species.^[2] There are two broods, one which bores in stems and produces galls, the other feeding in flowers, although flower feeding has not been recently confirmed.^[3]

References

1. On a collection of Pterophoridae (Lepidoptera) from Haut-Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo
2. Taxonomic study of the tribe Oidaematophorini (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae) from Korea, with descriptions of the two new species
3. Adaina primulacea Meyrick, 1929: A Gall-Inducing Plume Moth of Siam Weed from South Florida and The Neotropics (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae)

External links

• Taxonomic And Biological Studies Of Pterophoridae Of Japan (Lepidoptera)
• Japanese Moths
• UKmoths
• bladmineerders.nl