Ptocheuusa paupella

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Ptocheuusa paupella
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Ptocheuusa
Species:
P. paupella
Binomial name
Ptocheuusa paupella
(Zeller, 1847) [1]
Synonyms
  • Gelechia paupellaZeller, 1847
  • Aphelosetia inulellaCurtis, 1850
  • Apatetris leucoglyptaMeyrick, 1918

Ptocheuusa paupella, the light fleabane neb, is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found from central and southern Europe to the Ural Mountains. It is also found in Turkey and India. [2]

The wingspan is 10–12 mm. The ground colour is buff, streaked with whitish and with darker speckling. The forewings are light ochreous-yellow, with some black scales mostly arranged in longitudinal rows; margins, a median longitudinal streak from base to middle, an indistinct inwardly oblique slender fascia before middle and another at 3/4, and sometimes two or three faint longitudinal lines in disc posteriorly white. Hindwings are pale grey. The larva is pale yellowish; head and two spots on 2 dark fuscous, head pale brown. [3] [4] [5] [6]

Adults are on wing in June and again from August to September. [7]

The larvae feed in the seedheads of Pulicaria dysenterica , Centaurea nigra and Inula crithmoides . [8]

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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. ↑ 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 PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  4. ↑ Heath, J.,ed. 1976 The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland Vol. 4 Part 2
  5. ↑ Langmaid, J. R., Palmer, S. M. & Young, M. R. [eds]. 2018 A Field Guide to the Smaller Moths of Great Britain and Ireland [3rd ed.]Reading, Berkshire. British Entomological and Natural History Society
  6. ↑ lepiforum.de includes images PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  7. ↑ UKmoths
  8. ↑ microlepidoptera.nl Archived 2013-10-05 at the Wayback Machine


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