Epermenia petrusellus

Epermenia petrusellus is a moth of the family Epermeniidae. It is found in France, Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania and Greece. There are also records from the Kaluga Oblast, Russia, and from western Ukraine, but these records are doubtful and may be a misidentifications of Epermenia falciformis.[2]

Epermenia petrusellus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Epermeniidae
Genus:
Epermenia
Species:
E. petrusellus
Binomial name
Epermenia petrusellus
(Heylaerts, 1883)[1]
Synonyms
  • Chauliodus petrusellus Heylaerts, 1883
  • Epermenia petrusella
  • Epermenia kroneella Rebel 1903
  • Epermenia notodoxa Gozmány 1952

The wingspan is about 15 mm.[3]

The larvae feed on Peucedanum alsaticum and Peucedanum montanum.

References
  1. Fauna Europaea
  2. Faunistics of the Epermeniidae from the former USSR (Epermeniidae) Archived 2013-12-03 at the Wayback Machine
  3. lepiforum.de


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