Wheeleria obsoletus

Wheeleria obsoletus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pterophoridae
Genus:	Wheeleria
Species:	W. obsoletus
Binomial name
Wheeleria obsoletus (Zeller, 1841)
Synonyms
Pterophorus obsoletus Zeller, 1841 Wheeleria obsoleta Merrifieldia obsoletus Pterophorus desertorum Zeller 1867 Pterophorus desertorium Pterophorus subalternans Lederer, 1870 Alucita gonoscia Meyrick, 1922 Alucita phlomidactylus Wasserthal, 1970 Alucita marrubii Wasserthal, 1970 Aciptilus confusus Herrich-Schäffer, 1855

Wheeleria obsoletus is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in France, Italy, Austria, Sardinia, Sicily, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic Macedonia, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Cyprus,^[1] Turkmenistan,^[2] Asia Minor and western Asia.

Adults are on wing from April (the Palestinian Territories) or the end of May (Europe) to August in one generation per year.^[3]

The larvae feed on Ballota nigra, Marrubium vulgare and Marrubium peregrinum.^[4]

References

1. "Wheeleria obsoletus (Zeller, 1841)". Fauna Europaea. Retrieved 21 June 2011.
2. "Pterophoridae aus Zentralasien und angrenzenden Territorien.- 2. Teil (Lepidoptera)" (PDF). Landes Museum. Retrieved 21 June 2011.
3. "Federmotten aus der Mongolei, Russland, der Türkei, der Balkanhalbinsel und Afrika, mit Beschreibung neuer Arten (Microlepidoptera: Pterophoridae)" (PDF). Free Web. Retrieved 21 June 2011.
4. Wheeleria at funet

External links

• lepiforum.de