Ptocheuusa paupella

Ptocheuusa paupella
Imago Bramfield Woods, Hertfordshire, England
Scientific classification
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]

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 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain . Keys and description 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 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