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Mompha ochraceella | |
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Illustration from John Curtis's British Entomology Volume 6 | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Momphidae |
Genus: | Mompha |
Species: | M. ochraceella |
Binomial name | |
Mompha ochraceella | |
Synonyms | |
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Mompha ochraceella is a moth of the family Momphidae found in Africa, Asia and Europe.
The wingspan is 14–16 mm. The head is whitish-yellow ochreous. Forewings are yellow, suffusedly and irregularly irrorated with pale ferruginous; three darker scale-tufts above dorsum. Hindwings are whitish-yellowish. The larva is pale yellowish head pale brown. [2] Mompha lacteella q.v. and Mompha propinquella are very similar. [3]
Adults are on wing from May to August. [4]
The larvae feed on willowherbs ( Epilobium species), including great willowherb ( Epilobium hirsutum ). [5]
It is found in most of Europe, ranging (in the south) to Morocco and Asia Minor. In the east, the range extends to the Caucasus and Iran.
The setaceous Hebrew character is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is found in the Palearctic realm. It is a common species throughout Europe and North Asia and Central Asia, South Asia, China, Japan and Korea. It is also found in North America, from coast to coast across Canada and the northern United States to western Alaska. It occurs in the Rocky Mountains from Montana to southern Arizona and New Mexico. In the east, it ranges from Maine to North Carolina. It has recently been recorded in Tennessee.
The Hebrew character is a moth in the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is found throughout Europe.
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Mompha raschkiella is a species of micromoth in the family Momphidae. The moth was first described by German entomologist Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1838.
Mompha idaei is a moth in the family Momphidae first described by Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1839. It has a Holarctic distribution; in North America it is found from coast to coast in the boreal forest south to Colorado and Washington.
Mompha epilobiella is a moth in the family Momphidae found in Europe and North America.
Mompha subbistrigella, the garden cosmet, is a moth of the Momphidae family found in most of Europe.
Pancalia leuwenhoekella is a moth in the family Cosmopterigidae.
Agonopterix conterminella is a moth of the family Depressariidae which is found in Asia, Europe and North America. It was described by Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1839 from a specimen found in Augsburg, Germany. The larvae feed on the terminal shoots of willows.
Mompha is a genus of moths in the family Momphidae that was first described by Jacob Hübner in 1819. It has four subgenera.
Mompha conturbatella, also known as the fireweed mompha moth, is a moth in the family Momphidae found in Asia, Europe and North America. It was first described by Jacob Hübner in 1819.
Mompha lacteella is a moth in the family Momphidae found in the Palearctic including Europe.
Mompha propinquella is a moth in the family Momphidae found in Europe.
Mompha terminella is a moth in the family Momphidae found in Europe and North America.
Mompha divisella is a moth in the family Momphidae. It is found from southern Scandinavia to the Caucasus and central Asia.
Mompha bradleyi is a moth in the family Momphidae found in Europe.
Mompha confusella is a moth in the family Momphidae. It found from central and southern Europe to Transcaucasia. In Europe, it has been recorded from the Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine and Russia.
Mompha sturnipennella is a moth in the family Momphidae. It is found in the Holarctic ecozone and is found in most of Europe, Siberia, the Russian Far East and Canada.
Mompha jurassicella is a moth in the family Momphidae that can be found in western Europe. The range extends to Switzerland in the east.
Mompha locupletella is a moth in the family Momphidae that can be found in the Palearctic including Europe.