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Merrifieldia leucodactyla

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are green with a white-edged dark green dorsal line. There is a dark green subdorsal line, and yellowish grey spiracular line. The head is yellowish green. The larvae feed the leaves and developing seeds on wild thyme
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Thyme plumes are identified by their distinctive checkered pattern on the antennas, and a finite fuzzy brown line along the entire straw-yellow forewing. The
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is 18–25 millimetres (0.71–0.98 in). A close relative, the western thyme plume (
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Field Guide to the Micro Moths of Great Britain and Ireland
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Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Pterophoridae
Merrifieldia
Binomial name
Denis
Schiffermüller
Synonyms
moth
Pterophoridae
Europe
North Africa
Asia Minor
first described
Austrian
lepidopterists
Michael Denis
Ignaz Schiffermüller
wingspan
Merrifieldia tridactyla
larvae
Thymus serphyllum
Pulmonaria officinalis
Origanum vulgare

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