Anstenoptilia marmarodactyla

Anstenoptilia marmarodactyla is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is native to California and Arizona, south through Mexico to Costa Rica. It is an introduced species in Hawaii.

Anstenoptilia marmarodactyla
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pterophoridae
Genus:	Anstenoptilia
Species:	A. marmarodactyla
Binomial name
Anstenoptilia marmarodactyla (Dyar, 1902)
Synonyms
Anstenoptilia marmorodactyla Platyptilia marmarodactyla Dyar, 1902 Platyptilia pasadenensis Grinnell, 1908

Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. described the species in 1902 as Platyptilia marmarodactyla.^[1] In 1958, Zimmerman moved the species to a new genus, Anstenoptilia, but (mis-)spelled the epithet: Anstenoptilia marmorodactyla.^[2] The misspelling has been reused in several subsequent publications.^[3][4]

The wingspan is 16–18 mm. Adults are on wing in May and September in Central America and from July to November in the Nearctic realm.

The larvae feed on Ageratum, Salvia, Agastache, Mentha, Pycnanthemum, Monardella, Scrophularia and Lantana species.