Nemophora associatella

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Nemophora associatella
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Adelidae
Genus: Nemophora
Species:
N. associatella
Binomial name
Nemophora associatella
(Zeller, 1839) [1]
Synonyms
  • Adela associatellaZeller, 1839
  • Tinea megerlellaHübner, [1810] [2]

Nemophora associatella is a moth of the Adelidae family. It is found from Germany and Poland to the Pyrenees, Italy and the Balkan Peninsula. It is also present in Russia.

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The wingspan is about 19 mm. [3]

The larvae feed on Abies alba . They mine the leaves of their host plant. The larva mines a single leaf and drops to the ground with this leaf. It then cuts it and uses it as a case to feed on detritus. [4] Mining larvae can be found in June. The larvae are whitish with a brown head.

Taxonomy

This species was erroneously placed into the genus Adela by several authors.

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