Platyptilia cacaliae
| Platyptilia cacaliae | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pterophoridae |
| Genus: | Platyptilia |
| Species: | P. cacaliae |
| Binomial name | |
| Platyptilia cacaliae Fletcher, 1920 | |
Platyptilia cacaliae is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in India.[1]
The head is greyish-fuscous and the antennae are greyish, obscurely ringed with fuscous. The thorax is greyish-fuscous and the legs are whitish. The abdomen is greyish, irrorated (speckled) with fuscous. The forewings are brownish-grey irrorated with white and reddish-brown. The hindwings are fuscous-grey, irrorated with fuscous-brown.
Adults have been found flying over flowers of Cacalia coccinea. The larvae and pupae were found in the flower-heads.[2]
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