Eteobalea albiapicella

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Eteobalea albiapicella
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Cosmopterigidae
Genus: Eteobalea
Species:
E. albiapicella
Binomial name
Eteobalea albiapicella
(Duponchel, 1843)
Synonyms
  • Lita albiapicellaDuponchel, 1843

Eteobalea albiapicella is a moth in the family Cosmopterigidae. It is found in Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Corsica, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia, Romania, North Macedonia, Greece, southern Russia [1] and Turkey. [2]

The wingspan is 10–12 mm. There are two generations per year with adults on wing from May to June and again from August to September.

The larvae feed on Globularia cordifolia , Globularia vulgaris , Globularia elongata and Globularia nudicaulis . Full-grown larvae live in the upper part of the pedicel and in the syncarp, which they reinforce with silk. [3]

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References

  1. Fauna Europaea
  2. "Tentative Checklist of the Turkish Lepidoptera". Archived from the original on 2011-08-15. Retrieved 2011-08-16.
  3. lepiforum.de PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .