Athrips mongolorum

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Athrips mongolorum
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Athrips
Species:
A. mongolorum
Binomial name
Athrips mongolorum
Piskunov, 1980
Synonyms
  • Athrips crassivalvaLi & Zheng, 1998

Athrips mongolorum is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in Mongolia, Turkmenistan, south-eastern Kazakhstan and China (Ningxia). [1]

The wingspan is 9–12 mm. The forewings are whitish yellow to cream, covered with white and grey scales. There are two or three dark spots at the base, three dark spots surrounded by tufts of ochreous scales at about the middle and two very small spots at two-thirds. The hindwings are light grey. Adults are on wing from mid-March to early June and again in September in two generations per year.

The larvae feed on Nitraria schoberi . They tie the leaves of their host plant with silk, feeding from inside the shelter or mining the terminal leaves. The larvae are light green. The species overwinters in the pupal stage. [2]

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References

  1. Athrips at funet
  2. Bidzilya, O., 2005: A review of the genus Athrips (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) in the Palaearctic region . Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift52 (1): 3-71. doi : 10.1002/mmnd.200310001