Pterophorus pentadactyla: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Pterophoridae
- Genus
- Pterophorus
- Species
- Pterophorus pentadactyla
- Scientific Name
- Pterophorus pentadactyla
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Pterophorus pentadactyla
Pterophorus pentadactyla, commonly known as the white plume moth, is a moth in the family Pterophoridae. It is found in the West Palearctic including North Africa and Europe. The wingspan is 26–34 mm (1.0–1.3 in). It is uniformly white, with the hind wing pair divided in three feathery plumes and the front pair in another two. The moths fly from June to August. The larvae feed on bindweed (Convolvulus species).
...Pterophorus pentadactyla in languages:
- Bokmål
- sølvfjørmøll
- Bokmål
- sølvfjærmøll
- Czech
- pernatuška trnková
- Danish
- Hvidt fjermøl
- Dutch
- Sneeuwwitte vedermot
- Dutch
- Vijfvingerige vedermot
- English
- White Plume Moth
- Estonian
- valge-sulgtiib
- Finnish
- valkosulkanen
- French
- Ptérophore blanc
- German
- Weiße Winden-Federmotte
- German
- Schlehengeistchen
- German
- Schlehen-Federgeistchen
- Hungarian
- fehér tollasmoly
- Lithuanian
- Baltasis Pirštasparnis
- Polish
- Piórolotek pięciopiór
- Russian
- Белый птерофор
- Russian
- Пальцекрылка пятипалая
- Swedish
- vitt fjädermott
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Pterophorus africanus
- Pterophorus albidus
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- Pterophorus ashanti
- Pterophorus bacteriopa
- Pterophorus baliolus
- Pterophorus candidalis
- Pterophorus ceraunia
- Pterophorus chionadelpha
- Pterophorus chosokeialis
- Pterophorus cleronoma
- Pterophorus dallastai
- Pterophorus denticulata
- Pterophorus ebbei
- Pterophorus elaeopus
- Pterophorus endophaeus
- Pterophorus flavus
- Pterophorus furcatalis
- Pterophorus innotatalis
- Pterophorus ischnodactyla
- Pterophorus ischnodactylus
- Pterophorus kuningus
- Pterophorus lacteipennis
- Pterophorus lamottei
- Pterophorus lampra
- Pterophorus legrandi
- Pterophorus leucadactylus
- Pterophorus lieftincki
- Pterophorus lindneri
- Pterophorus massai
- Pterophorus melanopoda
- Pterophorus monodactylus
- Pterophorus monospilalis
- Pterophorus nigropunctatus
- Pterophorus niveodactyla
- Pterophorus niveus
- Pterophorus pentadactyla
- Pterophorus periscelidactylus
- Pterophorus rhyparias
- Pterophorus spilodactylus
- Pterophorus spissa
- Pterophorus terrenus
- Pterophorus uzungwe
- Pterophorus virgo
- Pterophorus volgensis