Global InformationAgdistis satanas information
| Agdistis satanas | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pterophoridae |
| Genus: | Agdistis |
| Species: | A. satanas
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| Binomial name | |
| Agdistis satanas Millière, 1875[1]
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Agdistis satanas is a moth in the family Pterophoridae. It is known from the Balearic Islands, Portugal, Spain, France, Corsica, Italy (Piedmont, Val d'Aosta, Latium, Apulia, Sardinia, Sicily), Malta, Germany, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Crete, Turkey, Israel, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Morocco.
The wingspan is about 20 mm. Adults are on wing from April to September.
The larvae feed on Scabiosa candicans, Scabiosa pyrenaica, Scleranthus species and Limoniastrum monopetalum.[2]
- ^ Fauna Europaea
- ^ Contribution to the Knowledge of the Pterophoridae from Pantano Longarini (South-Eastern Sicily)