Pyropteron meriaeforme

Pyropteron meriaeforme
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sesiidae
Genus: Pyropteron
Species: P. meriaeforme
Binomial name
Pyropteron meriaeforme
(Boisduval, 1840)[1]
Synonyms
  • Sesia meriaeforme Boisduval, 1840
  • Pyropteron meriaeformis
  • Synansphecia meriaeformis
  • Sesia meriiformis Rambur, [1866]
  • Sesia corsica Staudinger, 1856
  • Sesia venetense Joannis, 1908

Pyropteron meriaeforme is a moth of the Sesiidae family. It is found in Spain, Portugal, southern France, Italy and on Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily.[2]

The wingspan is 14–15 mm.[3]

The larvae feed on Rumex acetosella.[4]

Subspecies

References

  1. ↑ Checklist of the Sesiidae of the World
  2. ↑ Fauna Europaea
  3. ↑ lepiforum.de
  4. ↑ Synansphecia at funet


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