Trifurcula eurema

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Trifurcula eurema
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nepticulidae
Genus: Trifurcula
Species:
T. eurema
Binomial name
Trifurcula eurema
(Tutt, 1899)
Synonyms
  • Nepticula euremaTutt, 1899
  • Nepticula dorycniellaSuire, 1928
  • Nepticula gozmányiSzőcs, 1959
  • Levarchama eurema
  • Stigmella eurema

Trifurcula eurema is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is widespread throughout Europe, northwards to southern Norway and Sweden (but not in Finland), 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.

The wingspan is 4.5–7 mm.The head is orange, the collar light orange, the eyecaps are yellowish-white. The antennae are greyish-brown, just over half the forewing length. The forewings with large scales, greyish-brown with occasional white scales, distad to the middle with a pale transverse band (often broken). In the female the band may consist of two pale spots. The hindwings are grey, in the male with a velvety patch of scent scales on the underside and a long white hair brush. [1] [2] [3]

The larvae feed on Dorycnium hirsutum , Dorycnium pentaphyllum , Dorycnium rectum , Lotus corniculatus , Lotus cytisoides , Lotus ornithopodoides , Lotus pedunculatus , Lotus uliginosus and Tetragonolobus maritimus . They mine the leaves of their host plant.

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References

  1. ↑ lepiforum.de includes images PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  2. ↑ Emmet, A. M., 1976. Nepticulidae. — In: J. Heath (ed.). The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland 1: 171—267, pls. 1—7, 11, 12.
  3. ↑ Zagulajev, A.K., 1987 Nepticulidae (Stigmellidae); in G.S. Medvedev (ed.): Keys to the insects of the europaean part of the USSR, Vol.IV: Lepidoptera, part 1 (english translation), Oxonian Press Pvt.Ltd., New Dehli, 1987


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