Antispila treitschkiella
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Heliozelidae |
Genus: | Antispila |
Species: | A. treitschkiella
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Antispila treitschkiella (Fischer von Röslerstamm, 1843)[1]
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Antispila treitschkiella is a species of moth of the family Heliozelidae. It is found from Great Britain to Ukraine and from Sweden to France, Italy and Greece. It is also found in Portugal.
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The wingspan is about 6 mm. Adults are on wing from the end of April to the beginning of June and from July to August.[2]
The larvae feed on Cornus mas and Cornus sanguinea. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine starts as a corridor of about 10 mm closely following the leaf margin and containing much frass. Later, the direction reverses and turns into a full depth blotch. Here, the frass is deposited in scattered grains. Full-grown larvae cover an oval section at the margin of the blotch with a layer of silk. They then cut this loose and drops to the ground within it.[3] Larvae can be found in July and from the end of August to early October. The species overwinters in the larval stage, within the case.
References[edit]
- ^ Fauna Europaea
- ^ microlepidoptera.nl Archived May 1, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "bladmineerders.nl". Archived from the original on 2012-05-02. Retrieved 2011-09-14.