Trifurcula cryptella

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Trifurcula cryptella
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nepticulidae
Genus: Trifurcula
Species:
T. cryptella
Binomial name
Trifurcula cryptella
(Stainton, 1856)
Synonyms
  • Nepticula cryptellaStainton, 1856
  • Levarchama cryptella
  • Nepticula trifoliiSorhagen, 1885

Trifurcula cryptella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is widespread throughout Europe

The wingspan is 4-4.6 mm. The thick erect hairs on the head vertex are ferruginous-yellowish, sometimes mixed with fuscous. The collar is bright yellow. Antennal eyecaps are whitish. The forewings are pale greyish, coarsely irrorated with dark fuscous outer part of cilia whitish-grey. Hindwings grey. [1] External image

The larvae feed on Anthyllis montana , Coronilla coronata , Coronilla emerus , Coronilla emerus emeroides, Coronilla varia , Hippocrepis comosa , Lotus corniculatus , Lotus hispidus , Lotus pedunculatus and Lotus uliginosus . They mine the leaves of their host plant.

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References

  1. Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London