Swammerdamia caesiella

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Swammerdamia caesiella
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Yponomeutidae
Genus: Swammerdamia
Species:
S. caesiella
Binomial name
Swammerdamia caesiella
(Hübner, 1796) [1]
Synonyms
  • Tinea caesiellaHübner, 1796
  • Swammerdamia heroldellaHübner, [1825]
  • Swammerdamia heroldella
  • Tinea nubeculellaTengström, 1848
  • Swammerdamia nubeculella
  • Tinea griseocapitellaStainton, 1851
  • Swammerdamia griseocapitella

Swammerdamia caesiella is a moth of the family Yponomeutidae. It is found from most of Europe to Japan. It is also present in North America, [2] where it is possibly an introduced species. [3]

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Gnawed birch leaves
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Larva

The wingspan is 9–13 mm. The head is white. The thorax is white, sometimes anteriorly fuscous-sprinkled. Forewings are white, irregularly irrorated with fuscous; some longitudinal series of blackish dots; antemedian dark fuscous fascia reduced to two spots, discal and dorsal; two white spots on costa posteriorly, separated by a dark fuscous spot; cilia coppery-tinged, with two dark purplish-fuscons lines. Hindwings are pale fuscous. The larva is reddish-brown; dorsal line broad, paler, becoming indistinct posteriorly; spiracular broad, yellowish-white; head pale yellow-ochreous. [4]

They are on wing from May to June and again in August in two generations per year. [5]

The larvae feed on Betula species. They feed on the parenchyma on the upperside of a leaf, beneath a silken web.

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References

  1. ↑ Fauna Europaea
  2. ↑ Swammerdamia at funet
  3. ↑ Bug Guide
  4. ↑ 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
  5. ↑ UKmoths


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