Recurvaria leucatella

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Recurvaria leucatella
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Recurvaria
Species:
R. leucatella
Binomial name
Recurvaria leucatella
(Clerck, 1759) [1]
Synonyms
  • Phalaena leucatellaClerck, 1759
  • Phalaena (Tinea) leucatellaLinnaeus, 1761
  • Erminea leucateaHaworth, 1828
  • Lita albo-cingulellaDuponchel, 1839

Recurvaria leucatella (lesser budmoth or white-barred groundling moth) is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in most of Europe, Turkey, Central Asia and the Caucasus. [2]

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A sprig of hawthorn eaten by larva
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Larva

The wingspan is 14–15 mm. The head is ochreous-white. Forewings are dark fuscous; a broad white or ochreous-white fascia at 1/3; stigmata and a dot below second discal indistinctly blackish, somewhat raised; a white spot on tornus, and another on costa opposite; some white terminal scales. Hindwings are grey. The larva is light brown to whitish-green, more or less rosy-tinged; head and plate of 2 black. [3]

The moths are on wing from June to July depending on the location.

The larvae feed on Crataegus and Malus species.

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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