Digitivalva pulicariae

Digitivalva pulicariae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Acrolepiidae
Genus: Digitivalva
Species:
D. pulicariae
Binomial name
Digitivalva pulicariae
(Klimesch, 1956)
Synonyms
  • Acrolepia pulicariae Klimesch, 1956
  • Inuliphila pulicariae
  • Digitivalva granitella sensu auctt. nec (Treitschke, 1833)

Digitivalva pulicariae is a moth of the family Acrolepiidae. It is found in most of Europe, except Portugal, Fennoscandia, the Baltic region and Poland.[1]

The wingspan is about 13 mm.[2] Forewings more elongate, grey or fuscous, becoming ochreous-brown towards dorsum, more or less strigulated with blackish; several darker spots on costa posteriorly; a dark fuscous dorsal spot at 4, preceded and followed by whitish spots; one or two whitish dorsal dots towards tornus. Hindwings grey. Larva pale yellow-green; dorsal line darker.[3]

Adults are on wing from August to, after overwintering, May of the following year.[4]

The larvae feed on Pulicaria dysenterica. They mine the leaves of their host plant.[5] The larvae are yellowish green with a brown head. They can be found from June to July.

References

  1. ^ Fauna Europaea
  2. ^ "microlepidoptera.nl". Archived from the original on 2011-05-01. Retrieved 2012-04-06.
  3. ^ Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London pdf Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Keys and description
  4. ^ UKMoths
  5. ^ "bladmineerders.nl". Archived from the original on 2014-07-20. Retrieved 2012-04-06.


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