Bucculatrix bechsteinella

Bucculatrix bechsteinella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Bucculatricidae
Genus: Bucculatrix
Species:
B. bechsteinella
Binomial name
Bucculatrix bechsteinella
Synonyms
  • Tinea bechsteinella Bechstein & Scharfenberg, 1805
  • Lyonetia crataegi Zeller, 1839
  • Bucculatrix crataegi
  • Elachista crataegifoliella Duponchel, 1843

Bucculatrix bechsteinella is a moth of the family Bucculatricidae. It was described by Johann Matthäus Bechstein and Georg Ludwig Scharfenberg in 1805. It is found in most of Europe, except Greece and Bulgaria.

The wingspan is 7–9 mm.[2] The head is pale fuscous, mixed in middle with blackish. Forewings are brownish-whitish, irrorated with dark fuscous; a more or less distinct dark streak along fold from base to near middle, often incomplete; three oblique costal spots between 1/3 and apex, and a median dorsal spot suffusedly dark fuscous: second discal stigma forming a short blackish dash. Hindwings are grey. The larva is dull green, more yellowish above; dorsal line darker; dots yellowish and the head pale brown[3] [4]

Adults are on wing from mid-May to mid-August.[5] The larvae feed on Amelanchier, Chaenomeles, Cotoneaster, Crataegus douglasii, Crataegus laevigata, Crataegus monogyna, Cydonia oblonga, Malus domestica, Mespilus germanica, Prunus insititia, Prunus spinosa, Pyracantha coccinea, Pyrus communis, Sorbus aria, Sorbus aucuparia and Sorbus torminalis. They mine the leaves of their host plant. [6] Larvae can be found from June to August.

  • imago
    imago
  • Mining larva
    Mining larva
  • Externally feeding larva
    Externally feeding larva
  • Hawthorn leaf, mined and with a cocoonet under which the larva moults
    Hawthorn leaf, mined and with a cocoonet under which the larva moults
  • Gnawed hawthorn leaf
    Gnawed hawthorn leaf
  • Cocoon
    Cocoon

References

  1. ^ "Bucculatrix bechsteinella (Bechstein & Scharfenberg, 1805)". Fauna Europeaea. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
  2. ^ UKmoths
  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. ^ Zagulajev, A.K., 1990 Bucculatricidae ; in G.S. Medvedev (ed.): Keys to the insects of the europaean part of the USSR, Vol.IV: Lepidoptera, part 2 (english translation), Oxonian Press Pvt.Ltd., New Dehli, 1987
  5. ^ Lepidoptera of Belgium Archived May 13, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ Ellis, W N. "Bucculatrix bechsteinella (Bechstein & Scharfenberg, 1805) hawthorn bent-wing". Plant Parasites of Europe. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
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