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Alucita cymatodactyla

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Alucitidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Alucita

Similar
  
Alucita grammodactyla, Alucita hexadactyla, Alucita, Many‑plumed moth

Alucita cymatodactyla is a moth of the Alucitidae family. It is found in France, Spain, Italy, Slovenia, Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia and Iran, Israel, Lebanon and Turkey. The habitat consists of dry and semi-dry closed grasslands and riverine ash-alder woodlands.

Adults emerge in September, hibernate, then are again found in spring, from April to early July.

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Alucita cymatodactyla Wikipedia