Paraplatyptilia metzneri

Paraplatyptilia metzneri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pterophoridae
Genus: Paraplatyptilia
Species: P. metzneri
Binomial name
Paraplatyptilia metzneri
(Zeller, 1841)[1]
Synonyms
  • Pterophorus metzneri Zeller, 1841
  • Pterophorus bollii Frey, 1856

Paraplatyptilia metzneri is a moth of the Pterophoridae family that is found in France, Switzerland, Italy, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, Albania, Bulgaria, Russia, Turkey, China, Iran[2] and Mongolia.[3]

The larvae possibly feed on Astragalus species.[4]

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