Bucculatrix gnaphaliella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Bucculatricidae
Genus: Bucculatrix
Species:
B. gnaphaliella
Binomial name
Bucculatrix gnaphaliella
Synonyms
  • Elachista gnaphaliella Treitschke, 1833

Bucculatrix gnaphaliella is a moth of the family Bucculatricidae. It is found from Sweden and the Baltic region to the Pyrenees, Italy and Romania and from France to Russia. It was described by Georg Friedrich Treitschke in 1833.

Leaf of Gnaphalium arenarium with mine and cocoon
Larva

The wingspan is 8–9 mm.[2]

The larvae feed on Gnaphalium and Helichrysum arenarium. They mine the leaves of their host plant. In autumn, larvae create a thin corridor with a central frass line. In spring, they continue this mine with a much wider corridor. The larva then leaves the mine, and starts making fleck mines on the leaf underside. In the end, it bores the shoots of the host plant.[3] Larvae of the first generation can be found from autumn to May of the following year. Second generation larvae are found in July and live freely. They are pale yellow.

References

  1. ↑ Fauna Europaea
  2. ↑ Swedish Moths
  3. ↑ "bladmineerders.nl". Archived from the original on 2009-02-19. Retrieved 2011-10-31.



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