''Emmelina'' is a genus of

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

s in the family

Pterophoridae The Pterophoridae or plume moths are a family of Lepidoptera with unusually modified wings. Though they belong to the Apoditrysia like the larger moths and the butterflies, unlike these they are tiny and were formerly included among the assemblag ...

with a nearly cosmopolitan distribution.

Ecology

Also called "insetto egizio" the species seem to be

polyphagous Feeding is the process by which organisms, typically animals, obtain food. Terminology often uses either the suffixes -vore, -vory, or -vorous from Latin ''vorare'', meaning "to devour", or -phage, -phagy, or -phagous from Greek φαγε ...

, but representatives of the genera ''

Convolvulus ''Convolvulus'' is a genus of about 200 to 250''Convolvulus''.
Flora of China.

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Calystegia ''Calystegia'' (bindweed, false bindweed, or morning glory) is a genus of about 25 species of flowering plants in the bindweed family Convolvulaceae. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution in temperate and subtropical regions, but with half o ...

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Species

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Emmelina aethes ''Emmelina aethes'' is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Mexico. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has ...

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Emmelina amseli ''Emmelina amseli'' is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is known from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya and Tanzania Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a count ...

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Emmelina argoteles ''Emmelina argoteles'' (also known as the reed-bed plume) is a moth of the family Pterophoridae found in Asia and Europe. It was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1922. Description The wingspan is about 17 mm. The larvae feed on hedge ...

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Emmelina bigoti ''Emmelina bigoti'' is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is known from Kenya ) , national_anthem = "Ee Mungu Nguvu Yetu"() , image_map = , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital ...

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Emmelina buscki ''Emmelina buscki'' is a moth of the family Pterophoridae first described by William Barnes and Arthur Ward Lindsey in 1921. It is found in North America. The wingspan is 20–21 mm. Adults are tawny or brownish white, the abdomen with a s ...

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Emmelina jason ''Emmelina jason'' is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Brazil. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has ...

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Emmelina lochmaius ''Emmelina lochmaius'' is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is known from Gabon Gabon (; ; snq, Ngabu), officially the Gabonese Republic (french: République gabonaise), is a country on the west coast of Central Africa. Located on th ...

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Emmelina monodactyla ''Emmelina monodactyla'' (T-moth or morning-glory plume moth) is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Europe, Japan, central Asia, North Africa and North America. Description The wingspan is 18–27 mm. The moths fly nearly ye ...

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Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...

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Emmelina suspiciosus ''Emmelina suspiciosus'' is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Ecuador. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–2 ...

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