Buszkoiana is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae, containing only one species, Buszkoiana capnodactylus, which is known from Hungary, Poland, southern Germany, Denmark, the southern tip of the Netherlands,[2] Belgium, Italy, Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Albania, Ukraine and southern Russia.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pterophoridae |
| Tribe: | Platyptiliini |
| Genus: | Buszkoiana Koçak, 1981 |
| Species: | B. capnodactylus
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| Buszkoiana capnodactylus | |
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The moth is 18–24 mm for males and 22–27 mm for females.
The larvae feed on Petasites hybridus.
Taxonomy
editBuszkoiana is the replacement name for Richardia Buszko, 1978
References
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- ^ Fauna Europaea
- ^ "microlepidoptera.nl". Archived from the original on 2011-02-12. Retrieved 2011-06-20.
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