Platyptilia farfarellus Zeller, 1867

Pathania, Prakash C., Das, Apurva & Chandra, Kailash, 2021, Catalogue of superfamily Pterophoroidea Kuznetsov & Stekolnikov (Lepidoptera) of India, Zootaxa 4915 (2), pp. 201-236 : 215

66. Platyptilia farfarellus Zeller, 1867 ( Plate 4 , Fig. 9)

Platyptilus farfarellus Zeller, 1867 ; Stettiner entomologische Zeitung, 28: 334.

Platyptilia periacta Meyrick, 1910a ; Annals of the South African Museum, 5: 411.

Platyptilia claripicta Fletcher, 1910 ; Transactions of the Linnaean Society of London (II Zool.), 13: 400.

Platyptilia benitensis Strand, 1913 ; Archiv für Naturgeschichte, A.12: 64.

Platyptilia molopias Meyrick, 1906 ; Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 17: 135.

Platyptilia petila Yano, 1963 ; Pacific Insects, 5: 851.

TL: Poland.

Distribution: India, Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cameroun, Congo, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mongolia, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, New Guinea, Nigeria, Philippines, Poland, Rep. South Africa, S„o Tomé Island, Serbia, Seychelles, Sicily, Slovenia, Slovakia, Solomon Islands, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda.

Host: Larvae have been recorded from the flowers of Callistephus chinensis and Erechtites hieracifolia and flowers, leaves, and seeds of Teucrium tomentosum . Other recorded host plants include Senecio vernalis , S. viscosus , S. cruentus , Erigeron canadensis , E. linifolius , Calendula arvensis , C. officinalis , Centaurea cyanus , Dahlia pinnata , Emilia flammea , and Helichrysium bracteatum (all Asteraceae ).

Illustrations: Male and female genitalia ( Gielis 1996: figs 40, 177).

Figures

PLATE 4. Adult photographs of family Pterophoridae