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Capperia fusca

  • 1. Department of Animal Biology " Marcello La Greca ", University of Catania, Via Androne 81, 95124 Catania, Italy; e-mail: dursove @ unict. it
  • 2. 8 Avenue Fernard Gassion, F- 13600 La Ciotat, France

Description

Capperia fusca (Hofmann, 1898)

(Figs. 6-7)

Material examined. DISTRICT OF MT. ETNA: Catania city, 30 m a.s.l., WB 0572, 1.vii.2004, 1 ♀ (GMCI).

Biology. Adults: wingspan 12-15 mm. Adults occur up to 2,000 m a.s.l. from May to September. The only specimen was collected at night on a wall lit by a street lamp. Larval host plants: oligophagous on Stachys spp. and Marrubium vulgare L. (Lamiaceae).

Range in Italy. The whole peninsula; Sicily (new record).

Distribution. Turanian-European.

Notes

Published as part of Urso, Marchese, Giovanni & Nel, Jacques, 2008, A survey of Pterophoridae (Lepidoptera) of North-Eastern Sicily with new distributional records, pp. 197-208 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 202, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342507

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Hofmann
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Pterophoridae
Genus
Capperia
Species
fusca
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Capperia fusca (Hofmann, 1898) sec. Urso, Marchese & Nel, 2008