Cosmopterix schmidiella

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Cosmopterix schmidiella
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Cosmopterigidae
Genus: Cosmopterix
Species:
C. schmidiella
Binomial name
Cosmopterix schmidiella
(Frey, 1856) [1]
Synonyms
  • Cosmopteryx schmidiellaFrey, 1856
  • Cosmopterix schmidiella ab. obsoletaBanks

Cosmopterix schmidiella is a moth of the family Cosmopterigidae. It is found from most of Great Britain to Romania, and from Japan through central Russia to the Iberian Peninsula. It is believed to be extinct in Britain.

A leaf of Vicia sepium with leaflets discoloured by larva Cosmopterix schmidiella a leaf of Vicia sepium with leaflets discolourd by larva.JPG
A leaf of Vicia sepium with leaflets discoloured by larva
Larva Cosmopterix schmidiella larva.JPG
Larva

The wingspan is 9-9.5 mm. [2] Adults are on wing from August to May. Then the larva hibernates outside of the mine in a hibernaculum.

The larvae feed on Lathyrus montanus , Lathyrus niger , Vicia sepium and Vicia pisiformis . They mine the leaves of their host plant. [3]

Subspecies

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References

  1. Fauna Europaea
  2. Hants Moths
  3. "bladmineerders.nl". Archived from the original on 2012-09-14. Retrieved 2011-03-21.