Pterophorus niveodactyla
| Pterophorus niveodactyla | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pterophoridae |
| Genus: | Pterophorus |
| Species: | P. niveodactyla |
| Binomial name | |
| Pterophorus niveodactyla (Pagenstecher, 1900) | |
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Pterophorus niveodactyla is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in Taiwan, China, India, Sri Lanka, Malaya, Java, Sumatra, the Philippines, Borneo, New Guinea, Micronesia, the Bismarck Islands, the Solomon Islands and São Tomé & Principe.
The length of the forewings is 8–9 mm. Adults have whitish wings without dark brown dots.
The larvae feed on the young leaves of Ipomoea species, eating the leaves from the outside and not entering within the unexpanded leaf. They are uniform pale yellowish-green and thickly studded with long tufts of whitish hairs. Pupation takes place in a green pupa, which is thickly covered with pale green hairs and with an interrupted dorsal and sub-dorsal row of black spots.[1]
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