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Buszkoiana

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Buszkoiana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pterophoridae
Tribe: Platyptiliini
Genus: Buszkoiana
Koçak, 1981
Species:
B. capnodactylus
Binomial name
Buszkoiana capnodactylus
(Zeller, 1841)[1]
Synonyms
  • Pterophorus capnodactylus Zeller, 1841
  • Richardia capnodactylus
  • Platyptilia diversicilia Filipjev, 1931

Buszkoiana is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae, containing only one species, Buszkoiana capnodactylus, which is known from Hungary, Poland, southern Germany, Denmark, the southern tip of the Netherlands,[2] Belgium, Italy, Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Albania, Ukraine and southern Russia.

The moth is 18–24 mm for males and 22–27 mm for females.

The larvae feed on Petasites hybridus.

Taxonomy

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Buszkoiana is the replacement name for Richardia Buszko, 1978

References

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  1. ^ Fauna Europaea
  2. ^ "microlepidoptera.nl". Archived from the original on 2011-02-12. Retrieved 2011-06-20.