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Agdistis bennetii

Synonyms: Adactyla bennetii (homotypic); Adactylus bennetii

Wikipedia Abstract

Agdistis bennetii is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It inhabits salt marshes and has been recorded in the coastal areas of Great Britain, Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Albania, as well as former Yugoslavia. The wingspan is 24–30 mm. Adults are greyish-brown. There are two generations per year, with adults on wing from mid-May to the beginning of July and again from mid-July to mid-September. The larvae feed on Limonium vulgare and Limonium binervosum. They feed on the undersides of the leaves.
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Dorset Heaths (Purbeck and Wareham) and Studland Dunes 5491 England, United Kingdom
Humber Estuary 90582 England, United Kingdom
Solway Firth 107829 England/Scotland, United Kingdom
The Wash and North Norfolk Coast 266284 England, United Kingdom

Prey / Diet

Limonium vulgare (Mediterranean sealavender)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0