Wheeleria obsoletus is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in France, Italy, Austria, Sardinia, Sicily, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Cyprus,[1] Turkmenistan,[2] Asia Minor and western Asia.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pterophoridae |
| Genus: | Wheeleria |
| Species: | W. obsoletus
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| Wheeleria obsoletus (Zeller, 1841)
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Adults are on wing from April (the Palestinian Territories) or the end of May (Europe) to August in one generation per year.[3]
The larvae feed on black horehound (Ballota nigra), common horehound (Marrubium vulgare) and horehound (Marrubium peregrinum).[4]
References edit
- ^ "Wheeleria obsoletus (Zeller, 1841)". Fauna Europaea. Archived from the original on October 14, 2012. Retrieved 21 June 2011.
- ^ "Pterophoridae aus Zentralasien und angrenzenden Territorien.- 2. Teil (Lepidoptera)" (PDF). Landes Museum. Retrieved 21 June 2011.
- ^ "Federmotten aus der Mongolei, Russland, der Türkei, der Balkanhalbinsel und Afrika, mit Beschreibung neuer Arten (Microlepidoptera: Pterophoridae)" (PDF). Free Web. Retrieved 21 June 2011.
- ^ Wheeleria at funet
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