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Amblyptilia taprobanes Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875; Reise Fregatte Novara, Bd 2 (Abth. 2) (5): pl. 140Larva on Spergularia media [ME1]
Larva on (Outside Europe) Celsia coromandeliana, Antirrhinum sp., Clinopodium vulgare, Vaccinium sp., Campylanthus salsoloides, Centipeda minima, Plectranthus sp. [ME1]
Kari Nupponen & Timo Nupponen, 1997. Baptria 22(2): pp. 130-132.
A male of Stenoptilodes taprobanes was caught by sugar bait in SE Finland, Ka: Virolahti 671:53, during 4.10.1984 (T. & K. Nupponen leg.). The specimen was very probably carried with strong and warm southern air current, together with several other migrants.
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