The wingspan is 12–16mm.Head pale ochreous, ferruginous-tinged. Forewings rather dark purplish bronzy-fuscous; a whitish triangular dorsal spot before middle, and a smaller one before tornus. Hindwings rather dark grey.[1] The moth flies from April to June depending on the location.
↑ Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London pdfThis article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Keys and description
Related Research Articles
Incurvariidae is a family of small primitive monotrysian moths in the order Lepidoptera. There are twelve genera recognised. Many species are leaf miners and much is known of their host plants, excluding Paraclemensia acerifoliella. The most familiar species in Europe are perhaps Incurvaria masculella and Phylloporia bistrigella. The narrow wings are held tightly along the body at rest and some species have very long antennae.
Heliothis viriplaca, the marbled clover, is a moth of the family Noctuoidea. It is found in Europe and across the Palearctic to Central Asia then to Japan, Korea and Sakhalin. In the south, it penetrates to Kashmir and Myanmar. As a migratory moth, it also reaches areas in northern Fennoscandia in some years. North of the Alps, both indigenous and immigrant individuals occur in certain areas. The heat-loving species occurs mainly on dry grasslands, fallow land, heathlands and sunny slopes and slopes and the edges of sand and gravel pits.
Pandemis heparana, the dark fruit-tree tortrix or apple brown tortrix, is a moth of the family Tortricidae.
Paranthrene tabaniformis, the dusky clearwing, is a moth of the family Sesiidae. It is found in the Palearctic and Nearctic realms.
Incurvaria koerneriella is a moth of the family Incurvariidae. It is found in Europe.
Incurvaria oehlmanniella is a moth of the family Incurvariidae. It is found in Europe.
Incurvaria pectinea is a moth of the family Incurvariidae. It is found in Europe.
Micropterix mansuetella is a species of moth belonging to the family Micropterigidae. It is found primarily in freshwater wetlands and is distributed throughout northern, eastern, central and western Europe. The most southern occurrence is eastern Tyrol in Austria.
Micropterix calthella, the marsh marigold moth, is a species of moth belonging to the family Micropterigidae. It is found in damp habitats throughout Europe and is also distributed eastwards to central Siberia. It was described by Carl Linnaeus in 1761 as Phalaena calthella.
Eriocrania sparrmannella or mottled purple is a moth of the family Eriocraniidae. It is found in Europe.
Nemapogon is a genus of the fungus moth family, Tineidae. Therein, it belongs to the subfamily Nemapogoninae. As evident by its name, it is the type genus of its subfamily.
Coleophora anatipennella is a moth of the case-bearer family (Coleophoridae).
Incurvaria praelatella is a moth of the family Incurvariidae. It is found in all of Europe, except the Iberian Peninsula.
Incurvaria evocata is a moth of the family Incurvariidae. It is known from India.
Incurvaria is a genus of moths of the family Incurvariidae.
Incurvaria vetulella is a moth of the family Incurvariidae. It is found in Fennoscandia, Russia, Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Switzerland, Slovenia, Romania and Bulgaria. In the east, the range extends to Japan.
Incurvaria takeuchii is a moth of the family Incurvariidae. It is found on the main island (Honshu) of Japan.
Incurvaria alniella is a moth of the family Incurvariidae. It is found in Japan on the islands of Honshu and Kyushu.
Cauchas sedella is a moth of the Adelidae family or fairy longhorn moths. It was described by August Busck in 1915. It is found in North America, including Colorado.
Eucosma cana, the hoary bell, is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.
