Oxyptilus pilosellae
Oxyptilus pilosellae (hieracium plume moth) is a moth of the family Pterophoridae first described by Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1841. It is found in most of Europe, east to Russia and Asia Minor. It was released as a biological control agent for Hieracium in New Zealand in 1998.
| Oxyptilus pilosellae | |
|---|---|
 | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pterophoridae |
| Genus: | Oxyptilus |
| Species: | O. pilosellae |
| Binomial name | |
| Oxyptilus pilosellae (Zeller, 1841) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
| |
Description
The wingspan is 15–24 mm. Adults are on wing from May to August in western Europe.
Young larvae feed within the roots of hawkweeds (Hieracium species), including mouse-ear hawkweed (Hieracium pilosella). Later instars feed on the flowerheads, beneath a silken web.[2]
gollark: If you want to keep exploring excessively you'll need to pay me so I can pay for a better server.
gollark: As worldgen is very intensive, do not explore too fast.
gollark: And apparently 1.16.5 is hilariously inefficient.
gollark: It is a VPS with 4 ARM cores at 3.3GHz and 24GB of RAM.
gollark: It probably crashed.
References
- "Oxyptilus pilosellae (Zeller, 1841)". Fauna Europaea. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
- Ellis, W N. "Oxyptilus pilosellae (Zeller, 1841) downland plume". Plant Parasites of Europe. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.