Stenoptilia zophodactylus
Seq # 321290010
Schreckensteinia festaliella

Wheeleria spilodactylus (Curtis, 1827) Species

Last modified: Dec. 3, 2024, 3:58 p.m.

Only known from a record in the 19th century. Might not belong to the Belgian fauna.

Details

Classification
Family: Pterophoridae > Subfamily: Pterophorinae > Genus: Wheeleria > Species: Wheeleria spilodactylus
Vernacular names
Malrovevedermot (NL)
First mention in Belgium
De Sélys-Longchamps E. 1844. Énumération des insectes Lépidoptères de la Belgique. — Mémoires de la Société royale des Sciences de Liége 2: 1–35. On page 25. view page
Status

Native

Distribution

Imago

Wingspan 20 –25 mm.

Museum specimens

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Specimens in nature

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Bionomics

The caterpillar lives on the flowers and seeds.
Pupation on the underside of a leaf or along the stem of the food plant.

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Flight periods

One or two, difficult to separate, generations a year from April to October.

Observed on

Host plant (species):
Marrubium vulgare

Monophagous on Marrubium vulgare, though there are records that it also would live on the closely related Ballota nigra.

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Contact
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Flemish Entomological Society

jurate.deprins@gmail.com
    Species presence
  • 1799 West-Vlaanderen
  • 1793 Oost-Vlaanderen
  • 1967 Antwerpen
  • 1920 Limburg
  • 214 Vlaams Brabant
  • 1915 Brabant
  • 28 Brabant Wallon
  • 1680 Hainaut
  • 2224 Namur
  • 2143 Liège
  • 2222 Luxembourg