Wheeleria obsoletus explained

Wheeleria obsoletus is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in France, Italy, Austria, Sardinia, Sicily, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North 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 black horehound (Ballota nigra), common horehound (Marrubium vulgare) and horehound (Marrubium peregrinum).^[4]

External links

• lepiforum.de

Notes and References

1. Web site: Wheeleria obsoletus (Zeller, 1841). https://web.archive.org/web/20121014163805/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=437988. dead. October 14, 2012. Fauna Europaea. 21 June 2011.
2. Web site: Pterophoridae aus Zentralasien und angrenzenden Territorien.- 2. Teil (Lepidoptera). Landes Museum. 21 June 2011.
3. Web site: Federmotten aus der Mongolei, Russland, der Türkei, der Balkanhalbinsel und Afrika, mit Beschreibung neuer Arten (Microlepidoptera: Pterophoridae). Free Web. 21 June 2011.
4. http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/pterophoroidea/pterophoridae/pterophorinae/wheeleria/index.html Wheeleria at funet