| Teleiodes vulgella | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Teleiodes |
| Species: | T. vulgella |
| Binomial name | |
| Teleiodes vulgella | |
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Teleiodes vulgella (common groundling) is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is known from most of Europe, east to the southern Ural and the Volga region. [2]
The wingspan is 11–14 mm. [3] The head is grey, face whitish. Terminal joint of palpi as long as second. Forewings grey, irrorated with darker and some black scales; indistinct blackish spots on costa near base and before and beyond middle; sometimes two black dots transversely placed in disc at 1/4; stigmata black, first discal above plical, second confluent with a blackish bar of raised scales from tornus [small blackish patches bordered by raised whitish scale-tufts]. Hindwings 1, rather dark grey. The larva is greenish-grey; dots black; head ochreous-brown; plate of 2 black, bisected [4] [5] [6] [7]
They are on wing from June to July. [8]
The larva feeds on various shrubs and trees, including Crataegus , Prunus spinosa , Cotoneaster horizontalis , Juniperus communis , Malus domestica , Malus sylvestris , Prunus domestica , Amelanchier , Pyrus communis , Sorbus aria and Sorbus aucuparia .
