Beautiful plume

Weight

Not recorded

Length

Not recorded

Lifespan

Not recorded

Main food

Not recorded

Habitat

Not recorded

Young per litter or clutch

Not recorded

Conservation status

Not recorded

Countries on record

44 countriessrc for Countries on record

The beautiful plume is listed for 44 countries.

The same countries as a list

1. Albania
2. Armenia
3. Austria
4. Azerbaijan
5. Belgium
6. Bosnia & Herzegovina
7. Bulgaria
8. Croatia
9. Cyprus
10. Czechia
11. Denmark
12. Estonia
13. Finland
14. France
15. Georgia
16. Germany
17. Greece
18. Hungary
19. Iceland
20. Ireland
21. Italy
22. Kyrgyzstan
23. Latvia
24. Lithuania
25. Luxembourg
26. Malta
27. Montenegro
28. Morocco
29. Netherlands
30. North Macedonia
31. Norway
32. Poland
33. Portugal
34. Romania
35. Russia
36. Serbia
37. Slovakia
38. Slovenia
39. Spain
40. Sweden

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

1. kingdomAnimalia
2. phylumArthropoda
3. classInsecta
4. orderLepidoptera
5. familyPterophoridae
6. genusAmblyptilia
7. SpeciesAmblyptilia acanthadactyla (Hübner, [1813])

Synonyms Alucita acanthadactyla, Amblyptilia acanthodactyla, Amblyptilia calaminthae, Amblyptilia tetralicella, Platyptilia acanthodactyla, Platyptilia acanthodactyla var. phoenicodactyla, Platyptilia tetralicella

Catalogue of Life

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@misc{beautiful_plume_2026,
  title = {Beautiful plume (Amblyptilia acanthadactyla)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/beautiful-plume},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}