Taxon classification Animalia Lepidoptera Choreutidae

Anthophila fabriciana (Linnaeus, 1767) Figs 3, 4

Phalaena (Tortrix) fabriciana Linnaeus, 1767: 880.

Material examined.

1♀, Vereda da Entrosa, Arco de São Jorge, 225 m, 14.ii.2001, leg. A. M. F. Aguiar (ICLAM).

Host plant.

Urtica sp. ( Urticaceae).

Remarks.

This is a new record for Madeira. The single specimen was collected at the same place as several Anthophila threnodes . We examined photographs of this specimen deposited in the BMNH and are of the opinion that it is correctly identified.

Diagnosis.

Anthophila fabriciana resembles Anthophila threnodes, but differs by its greyish brown wings. It has the cream-white spots apically at costa and dorsum connected by a light zigzag-line, and has a white streak near the margin in the hindwings (Figs 3, 4).