Leucoptera lotella

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Leucoptera lotella
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lyonetiidae
Genus: Leucoptera
Species:
L. lotella
Binomial name
Leucoptera lotella
(Stainton, 1859)
Synonyms
  • Cemiostoma lotellaStainton, 1859

Leucoptera lotella is a moth in the Lyonetiidae family. It is found from Denmark to Portugal, Italy and Croatia, and from Great Britain to Poland and Hungary. [1]

The wingspan is 5-6 mm. The forewings are light shining metallic grey ; apical half beyond an oblique line orange, enclosing two white dark -edged costal spots, and a post-tornal pale golden spot partly black-edged anteriorly and followed by a coppery black apical spot ; a black vertical bar in cilia at apex, a bar before and two diverging bars beyond it, penultimate directed upwards. Hindwings are rather dark grey. The larva is yellow-whitish ; head and plate of 2 pale brown [2]

The larvae feed on Securigera varia , Dorycnium pentaphyllum , Lotus corniculatus , Lotus pedunculatus , Securigera coronata and Lotus maritimus . They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine consists of an upper-surface blotch without a preceding gallery. The blotch is nearly circular, but may have broad lobes. The black frass is deposited in indistinct arcs or spirals, glued to the upper epidermis and forming a dark central patch. The larvae may leave a mined leaf and restart elsewhere. Pupation takes place outside of the mine. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ "Leucoptera lotella (Stainton, 1859)". 2.5. Fauna Europaea. July 23, 2012. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved April 6, 2013.
  2. ↑ Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London pdf PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain . Keys and description
  3. ↑ "Leucoptera lotella (Stainton, 1859)". Bladmineerders.nl. Retrieved September 22, 2010.


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