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Platyptilia cacaliae

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Platyptilia cacaliae is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in India.

The head is greyish fuscous and the antennae are greyish, obscurely ringed with fuscous. The thorax is greyish fuscous and the legs are whitish. The abdomen is greyish, irrorated (speckled) with fuscous. The forewings are brownish grey irrorated with white and reddish brown. The hindwings are fuscous-grey, irrorated with fuscous-brown.

Adults have been found flying over flowers of Cacalia coccinea. The larvae and pupae were found in the flower-heads.

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Platyptilia cacaliae Wikipedia


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