Pterophoridae : Pterophorinae
Brown Plume
STENOPTILIA pterodactyla (Linnaeus, 1761)
Brown Plume
STENOPTILIA pterodactyla (Linnaeus, 1761)
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Life Cycle Guide
Description
Wingspan: 20 - 26mm
Worldwide Distribution: Europe - ( Excluding - Azores,Balearic Is., Canary Is.,Crete,Cyprus,Madeira,Portugal,Sardinia,Slovenia & Ukraine) : Asia Minor : Neartic
UK Distribution: Distributed throughout the British Isles,often commonly in the south : More locally in northern England and Scotland
UK Conservation Status -
Habitat: Downland : Open Woodland : Dry Pastures
Similar Species -
Overwinters as: Larva
Observations: Forewing cleft cut into lobes at about two thirds,where its reddish brown to yellowish brown with two isolated spots at the base of the clefts.
the costal lobe has a small dot in the terminal cilia and another white cilia along the costal margin.
The S.bipuntidactya group has a greyish brown forewing and the costal lobe is grey with dark cilia on the costal margin.
Visit flowers at night and is attracted to light.
Worldwide Distribution: Europe - ( Excluding - Azores,Balearic Is., Canary Is.,Crete,Cyprus,Madeira,Portugal,Sardinia,Slovenia & Ukraine) : Asia Minor : Neartic
UK Distribution: Distributed throughout the British Isles,often commonly in the south : More locally in northern England and Scotland
UK Conservation Status -
- Common = >300 10Km Squares
- Least Concern
- Alucita pterodactyla (Linnaeus, 1761)
- Phalaena pterodactyla (Linnaeus, 1761)
- Not Specified
Habitat: Downland : Open Woodland : Dry Pastures
Similar Species -
- Twin-spot Plume - Stenoptilia bipunctidactyla - (Scopoli, 1763)
Overwinters as: Larva
Observations: Forewing cleft cut into lobes at about two thirds,where its reddish brown to yellowish brown with two isolated spots at the base of the clefts.
the costal lobe has a small dot in the terminal cilia and another white cilia along the costal margin.
The S.bipuntidactya group has a greyish brown forewing and the costal lobe is grey with dark cilia on the costal margin.
Visit flowers at night and is attracted to light.
Photo Gallery
Larval Food Plants Worldwide
Note - Plants hyperlinked in red below take the visitor to the relevant plant page on"Plants for a Future" website where further information like photos,physical characteristics,habitats,edible uses,medicinal uses,cultivation,propagation,range,height etc. are clearly listed.
Plant Families - in bold red below takes the visitor to the relevant "Lepi-plants" page where other butterflies & moths using the plants below are listed.
Plant Families - in bold red below takes the visitor to the relevant "Lepi-plants" page where other butterflies & moths using the plants below are listed.
- Convolvulaceae - Bindweed - Morning Glory Family
- Convolvulus arvensis - Field Bindweed
- Scrophulariaceae - Figwort Family
- Veronica chamaedrys - Germander Speedwell - Bird's eye Speedwell
- Veronica chamaedrys - Germander Speedwell - Bird's eye Speedwell
Larval Food Plants
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Taxonomy
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Animalia
Eumetozoa Arthropoda Hexapoda Insecta Lepidoptera Pterophoroidea Pterophoridae Pterophorinae STENOPTILIA Hübner 1825 Stenoptilia pterodactyla (Linnaeus, 1761) - Phalaena pterodactyla (Linnaeus, 1761) - ALUCITA pterodactyla (Linnaeus, 1761) = Pterophorus fuscus Retzius, 1783 = Alucita fuscodactyla Haworth, 1811 = Alucita ptilodactyla Hübner, [1813] = Mimaeseoptilus paludicola Wallengren, 1862 - STENOPTILIA Hübner 1825 = Mimaeseoptilus Wallengren 1862 = Adkinia Tutt 1905 = Doxosteres Meyrick 1886 - Fauna Suecica (Edn 2) : Title page : p.371 - n.1456 - Not Specified |