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| Mompha terminella | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Momphidae |
| Genus: | Mompha |
| Species: | M. terminella |
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| Mompha terminella | |
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Mompha terminella is a moth in the family Momphidae found in Europe and North America.
The wingspan is 8–10 mm.The head is dark leaden-metallic, the face silvery. Antennae with apex white. The forewings are orange, sometimes suffused with purple or brown; a black blotch on base of costa, margined with silver-metallic spots; stigmata and a spot above tornus silver-metallic, black-edged, first discal whiter ; apex black, preceded on costa by a white spot and on termen by a silver-metallic mark. The hindwings are dark fuscous.The larva is whitish ; dorsal line green ; head yellowish brown: in irregular (at first spiral) blotches in leaves of Circaea lutetiana; The imago is seldom observed at large. [2] Note- forewing ground colour is dark orange . There is lead-coloured spot extending from the base of the wing to 1/3 of the length of the forewing, at the base of the wing it extends from the costal vein to the inner edge of the wing. [3] [4] Adults are on wing from July to August in one generation per year. [5]
The larvae feed on small enchanter's nightshade ( Circaea alpina ) and enchanter's nightshade ( Circaea lutetiana ) mining the leaves of their host plant. Larvae can be found from mid-August to mid-September. They are whitish with a light brown head. [6]
It is found from Fennoscandia to the Iberian Peninsula and from Ireland to Romania. It is also found in North America. [1] [7]
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