Calyciphora nephelodactyla explained

Calyciphora nephelodactyla is a plume moth of the family Pterophoridae.

Distribution

This species can be found in Spain, France, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Serbia and Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Greece, Russia and Anatolia.^[1]

Description

The wingspan is 21–24 mm.^{[2] [3]}

Biology

Adults fly on July and August. Larvae feed on Cirsium eriophorum.^{[4] [5] [6]}

Notes and References

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20121014124909/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=438043 Fauna Europaea
2. Eversmann, E. (1844): Fauna lepidopterologica volgo-uralensis exhibens lepidopterorum species quas per viginti quinque annos in provinciis Volgam fluvium inter et montes Uralenses sitis observavit et descripsit. I-XIV, 1-633.
3. O. Karsholt, J. Razowski (eds.), 1996. The Lepidoptera of Europe: a distributional checklist
4. http://ftp.funet.fi/index/Tree_of_life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/pterophoroidea/pterophoridae/pterophorinae/calyciphora/index.html Calyciphora at funet
5. http://www.lepiforum.de/lepiwiki.pl?Calyciphora_Nephelodactyla Lepiforum.de
6. http://www.leps.it/indexjs.htm?SpeciesPages/CalycNephe.htm Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa