Antispila metallella

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Antispila metallella
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Heliozelidae
Genus: Antispila
Species:
A. metallella
Binomial name
Antispila metallella
Synonyms
  • Tinea metallellaDenis & Schiffermuller, 1775
  • Tinea pfeifferellaHubner, 1813
  • Antispila pfeifferella

Antispila metallella is a moth of the family Heliozelidae. It is found from Scandinavia to the Pyrenees, Alps and Romania and from Great Britain to Russia.

A mined dogwood leaf Antispila metallella a mined dogwood leaf.JPG
A mined dogwood leaf
Larva Antispila metallella larva.JPG
Larva

The wingspan is 8–9 mm. Adults are bronzy metallic with paler metallic markings. They are on wing in May. [2]

The larvae feed on Cornus alba , Cornus mas and Cornus sanguinea . They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine starts as a short corridor close to the leaf margin. It later widens into a large blotch, that often overruns the initial corridor. Full-grown larva make an oval excision in which they drop the ground. They continue feeding from within this excision which is now used as a case. Pupation takes place within the case. [3] Larvae can be found from July to August.

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References

  1. Fauna Europaea
  2. Ukmoths
  3. "bladmineerders.nl". Archived from the original on 2014-07-19. Retrieved 2011-10-24.