| Trifurcula bupleurella | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nepticulidae |
| Genus: | Trifurcula |
| Species: | T. bupleurella |
| Binomial name | |
| Trifurcula bupleurella (Chretien, 1907) | |
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Trifurcula bupleurella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in southern France and the Iberian Peninsula.
The larvae feed on Bupleurum fruticosum and Bupleurum rigidum . They mine the leaves of their host plant.
Bupleurum is a large genus of annual or perennial herbs or woody shrubs, with about 190 species, belonging to the family Apiaceae. The full size of its species may vary between a few cm to up to 3 m high. Their compound umbels of small flowers are adorned with bracteoles that are sometimes large and may play a role in attracting pollinators. Rare among the Apiaceae are the simple leaves, bracts, and bracteoles. The genus is almost exclusively native in the Old World Northern Hemisphere, with one species native to North America and one species native to southern Africa.
Trifurcula is a genus of moths of the family Nepticulidae. For the Triassic aged ray-fin "Glaucolepis" Stensiö, 1921 see Pteronisculus.
Trifurcula cryptella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is widespread throughout Europe, northwards to southern parts of Norway and Sweden, eastwards to Poland and the Balkan Peninsula, and south to the Mediterranean countries, but there it is rare and confined to mountainous regions. In Italy it has only been recorded from the northern part, in Portugal in the Serra da Estrêla, in Spain in the Cantabrian Mountains and possibly the Sierra Nevada. It is absent from the Mediterranean islands.
Trifurcula eurema is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is widespread throughout Europe, northwards to southern Norway and Sweden, Poland and the Baltic Region. It is also found in the Mediterranean region, including the larger Mediterranean islands, east to Bulgaria, Asiatic Turkey and Ukraine.
Trifurcula manygoza is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is only known to be from Croatia and north-western Greece. But is probably also present in other Balkan countries.
Trifurcula ortneri is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is widespread in the western Mediterranean region, where it is known from the Algarve in Portugal, Spain, France and Italy. It has also been recorded from Croatia (Dalmatia), Morocco and Algeria, eastern Austria, Hungary, Slovakia and Germany.
Trifurcula globulariae is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. First described by Klimesch in 1975, it is only known from North Macedonia.
Trifurcula josefklimeschi is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found south of the line running from France to the Czech Republic and Ukraine.
Trifurcula orientella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found from Portugal and southern France across Liguria and Slovenia and southern central Europe to Greece.
Trifurcula sanctibenedicti is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in Spain.
Trifurcula pallidella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is the type species of the genus Trifurcula. It is found from south-eastern Germany (Bayern), east into Bohemia, Moravia, Slovakia, adjacent south-eastern Poland, much of Austria, both along the Danube and east and south of the Alps, extending through the Balkans to southern Greece (Peloponnesus) and Crete, eastwards through Ukraine and Russia to the Volga, and one questionable record from Turkey. To the west it occurs in northern Italy almost reaching France, just extending into Switzerland (Ticino), and throughout Italy to Sicily and Corsica.
Trifurcula beirnei is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in Great Britain, Denmark and parts of Germany, Poland, Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. It is also found in the Volga and Ural region of Russia.
Trifurcula austriaca is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. It has also been reported from Greece.
Trifurcula subnitidella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is widespread in Europe southward to the northern border of the Sahara in Tunisia and eastward to the Crimea and Asia minor.
Trifurcula immundella, the broom pygmy moth, is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in western Europe, wherever the host plant occurs.
Trifurcula aurella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is known from France, Italy, Croatia and Greece.
Depressaria bupleurella is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found from Italy, France and Germany east to Poland, Ukraine and Romania.
Pierre Chrétien was a French entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. He was a member of Société entomologique de France. Trifurcula chretieniZ. & A. Lastuvka & van Nieukerken, 2013 is "named in honour of Pierre Chrétien (1846–1934), who discovered nepticulid mines on Bupleurum, including those on Bupleurum rigidum, and the first author to describe a number of Mediterranean species that are now placed in Trifurcula (Glaucolepis)." His collection is held by National Museum of Natural History in Paris.
Bupleurum fruticosum or shrubby hare's-ear is a species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae. It is endemic to the Mediterranean region. It lives in sunny hills, walls and rocky places.
Bupleurum baldense, the small hare's ear, is a plant species of the genus Bupleurum.