Acrolepiopsis tauricella
Appearance
Acrolepiopsis tauricella | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Acrolepiidae |
Genus: | Acrolepiopsis |
Species: | A. tauricella
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Binomial name | |
Acrolepiopsis tauricella (Staudinger, 1870)
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Acrolepiopsis tauricella is a moth of the family Acrolepiidae. It is found Italy, Switzerland, Hungary and Ukraine.[1]
The larvae feed on Tamus communis. They mine the leaves of their host plant. Young larvae make one or two small full depth blotch mines.[2] The larvae have a pale yellowish green body and head.
References
[edit]- ^ Fauna Europaea
- ^ "bladmineerders.nl". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2012-04-06.