Ptocheuusa paupella
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| Imago Bramfield Woods, Hertfordshire, England | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Ptocheuusa |
| Species: | P. paupella
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Ptocheuusa paupella, the light fleabane neb, is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found from central and southern Europe to the Ural Mountains. It is also found in Turkey and India.[2] The wingspan is 10–12 mm. The ground colour is buff, streaked with whitish and with darker speckling. The forewings are light ochreous-yellow, with some black scales mostly arranged in longitudinal rows; margins, a median longitudinal streak from base to middle, an indistinct inwardly oblique slender fascia before middle and another at 3/4, and sometimes two or three faint longitudinal lines in disc posteriorly white. Hindwings are pale grey. The larva is pale yellowish; head and two spots on 2 dark fuscous, head pale brown.[3][4] [5] [6] Adults are on wing in June and again from August to September.[7] The larvae feed in the seedheads of Pulicaria dysenterica, Centaurea nigra and Inula crithmoides.[8]
References
- ↑ Fauna Europaea
- ↑ Junnilainen, J. et al. 2010: The gelechiid fauna of the southern Ural Mountains, part II: list of recorded species with taxonomic notes (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Zootaxa, 2367: 1–68. Preview
- ↑ Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London pdf File:PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Keys and description File:PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ↑ Heath, J.,ed. 1976 The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland Vol. 4 Part 2
- ↑ Langmaid, J. R., Palmer, S. M. & Young, M. R. [eds]. 2018 A Field Guide to the Smaller Moths of Great Britain and Ireland [3rd ed.]Reading, Berkshire. British Entomological and Natural History Society
- ↑ lepiforum.de includes imagesFile:PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ↑ UKmoths
- ↑ microlepidoptera.nl Archived 2013-10-05 at the Wayback Machine
