Paraplatyptilia metzneri explained

Paraplatyptilia metzneri is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is found in France, Switzerland, Italy, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, Albania, Bulgaria, Russia, Turkey, China, Iran[1] and Mongolia.[2]

The larvae possibly feed on Astragalus species.[3]

Notes and References

  1. https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/455/45514996002.pdf Notes on the tribes Platyptiliini and Exelastini from Iran (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae)
  2. Fazekas . Imre . Federmotten aus der Mongolei, Russland, der Türkei, der Balkanhalbinsel und Afrika, mit Beschreibung neuer Arten (Microlepidoptera: Pterophoridae) . Five new species, distribution records of plume moths from Mongolia, Russia, Turkey, Balkans and the Africa (Microlepidoptera: Pterophoridae) . Folia comloensis . 2003 . 12 . 5–24 . de .
  3. http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/pterophoroidea/pterophoridae/pterophorinae/paraplatyptilia/index.html Paraplatyptilia at funet

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