Mirificarma cytisella

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Mirificarma cytisella
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Mirificarma
Species:
M. cytisella
Binomial name
Mirificarma cytisella
(Treitschke, 1833) [1]
Synonyms
  • Lita cytisellaTreitschke, 1833
  • Gelechia cytisella ab. roseellaHauder, 1918

Mirificarma cytisella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found from most of Europe (except Ireland, Great Britain, Fennoscandia, the Baltic region and part of the Balkan Peninsula) to the Ural Mountains. [2]

The wingspan is 6–8 mm for males and 6-7.5 mm for females.

The larvae feed on Cytisus nigricans , Genista , Calicotome spinosa , Ononis spinosa and possibly Laburnum anagyroides . They feed mostly from within two or three spun leaves. [3] [4] Larvae can be found in June, September and October.

Subspecies

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References

  1. Fauna Europaea
  2. Junnilainen, J.et al. 2010: The gelechiid fauna of the southern Ural Mountains, part II: list of recorded species with taxonomic notes (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Zootaxa, 2367: 1–68. Preview
  3. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History)
  4. bladmineerders.nl