Pasiphila testulata ( Guenee , 1858)

Schmidt, Olga, 2016, Larval food plants of Australian Larentiinae (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) - a review of available data, Biodiversity Data Journal 4, pp. 7938-7938 : 7938

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e7938

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Pasiphila testulata ( Guenee , 1858)
status

 

Pasiphila testulata ( Guenee, 1858)

Ecological interactions

Feeds on

Malus domestica ( Rosaceae )

Notes

Common 1990. Larvae occasionally damage the young fruits of apples. Three Europaean species, P. chloerata (Mabille, 1870), P. debiliata ( Hübner, 1817) and P. rectangulata (Linnaeus, 1758) feed on Prunus spp. ( Rosaceae ), Vaccinium spp. ( Ericaceae ) and Malus sp., Pyrus sp., Prunus spp., Crataegus sp. and Amelanchier sp. ( Rosaceae ) ( Mironov 2003). A New Zealand species P. urticae (Hudson, 1939) feed on Urtica ferox ( Urticaceae ).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Geometridae

Genus

Pasiphila