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Emmelina monodactyla

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Description

28. Emmelina monodactyla (Linnaeus, 1758) (Plate 2, Fig. 9)

Phalaena monodactyla Linnaeus, 1758; Systema Naturae, Pars Lepidoptera (10 th edition): 542.

Pterophorus flaveodactylus Amary, 1840; Annali dell’Accademia degli Aspiranti Naturalisti, Napoli, 2: 84.

Pterophorus naevosidactylus Fitch, 1855; Transactions of the New York Agricultural Society, 14: 849.

Pterophorus impersonalis Walker, 1864; List of specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum, 30: 943.

Pterophorus pergracilidactylus Packard, 1873; Annals Lyceum Natural History New York, 10: 266.

Pterophorus barberi Dyar, 1903; Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Wash ington, 5: 228.

Pterophorus pictipennis Grinnell, 1908; Canadian Entomologist, 40: 320.

Pterophorus monodactylus f. rufa Dufrane, 1960; Bulletin de l’Institute royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, 36: 6.

TL: Europe.

Distribution: India, Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Azores Islands, Balearic Islands, Belgium, Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Canary Islands, China, Corse, Costa Rica, Crete, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kirgizstan, Korea, Latvia, Lebanon, Libya, Lichtenstein, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Macedonia, Madeira, Malta, Mexico, Moldavia, Mongolia, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Sardinia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Sicily, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tadzhikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, U.S. A, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Yemen.

Host: Atriplex sp., Chenopodium sp. (Chenopodiaceae), Convolvulus arvensis, C. microphyllus, C. cantabrica, C. althaeoides, C. floridus, C. subacaulis, Calystegia soldanella, C. sepium, C. spithamaea, Ipomoea purpurea, I. batatas, I. hispida (Convolvulaceae), and Datura stramonium (Solanaceae).

Parasitoids: Oxynops anthracinus, Ligeria angusticornis (Diptera, Tachinidae). Phaeogenes (= Oronotus) vincibilis, Heterischnus pullex, H. truncator, Mesochorus orbitalis (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae); Pnigalio proximus (Hym., Eulophidae); Cotesia sp., Apanteles lacteicolor, Aleiodes bicolor (Hym., Braconidae).

Illustrations: Wing venation, male and female genitalia (Gielis 1993: figs 74, 133, 197).

Notes

Published as part of Pathania, Prakash C., Das, Apurva & Chandra, Kailash, 2021, Catalogue of superfamily Pterophoroidea Kuznetsov & Stekolnikov (Lepidoptera) of India, pp. 201-236 in Zootaxa 4915 (2) on pages 208-209, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4915.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4454312

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Pterophoridae
Genus
Emmelina
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Lepidoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Species
monodactyla
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Emmelina monodactyla (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Pathania, Das & Chandra, 2021

References

  • Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, Iocis. Tomus 1. Editio Decima, Reformata. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae, iv + 824 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 542
  • Amary, A. (1840) Insetti. In: Costa, O. G. Statistica fisica ed economica dell'Isola di Capri. Esercitazioni accademiche degli aspiranti Naturalisti, Napoli, 2 (1), pp. 1 - 140.
  • Fitch, A. (1855) The gartered or grape-vine plume. Transactions of the New York Agricultural Society, 14, 843 - 849.
  • Walker, F. (1864) Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera. In: List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Vol. 30. Trustees of the British Museum, London, pp. 834 - 1096.
  • Packard, A. S. (1873) Catalogue of the Pyralidae of California, with descriptions of new Californian Pterophoridae. Annals Lyceum Natural History New York, 10, 257 - 267. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1749 - 6632.1874. tb 00045. x
  • Dyar, H. G. (1903) List of lepidoptera taken at Williams, Arizona, by Messrs. Schwarz and Barber. 1. Papilionoidea, Sphingoidea, Bombycoidea, Tineioidea (in part). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Wash ington, 5, 167 - 236.
  • Grinnell, F. (1908) Notes on the Pterophoridae or plume-moths of Southern California, with descriptions of new species. Canadian Entomologist, 40, 313 - 321. https: // doi. org / 10.4039 / Ent 40313 - 9
  • Dufrane, A. (1960) Microlepidopteres de la faune Belge (9 e note). Bulletin de l'Institute royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, 36, 5 - 16.
  • Gielis, C. (1993) Generic revision of the superfamily Pterophoroidea (Lepidoptera). Zoologische Verhandelingen, 290, 1 - 139.