| Teleiodes luculella | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Teleiodes |
| Species: | T. luculella |
| Binomial name | |
| Teleiodes luculella | |
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Teleiodes luculella, the crescent groundling, is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found from Europe to the southern Ural and Transcaucasia. [2] The habitat consists of woodlands, including oak woodlands. [3]
The wingspan is 9–13 mm. [4] The head is white, mixed with black. Terminal joint of palpi shorter than second. Forewings are dark grey, mixed with black; some indistinct whitish spots towards base; a semicircular white costal blotch before middle, enclosing a blackish costal mark, and posteriorly suffused with yellow-ochreous in disc; a small whitish tornal spot, and a larger one on costa opposite. Hindwings under 1, grey. The larva is whitish green; dots black; head yellow-brown; plate of 2 yellow brown, black-marked [5] [6] [7] [8]
Adults are on wing from May to June.
The larvae feed on Quercus , Castanea sativa , Betula , Acer and Salix eleagnos . [9]
