Ypsolopha parenthesella

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Ypsolopha parenthesella
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Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Ypsolophidae
Genus: Ypsolopha
Species:
Y. parenthesella
Binomial name
Ypsolopha parenthesella
(Linnaeus, 1761) [1]
Synonyms
  • Phalaena parenthesellaLinnaeus, 1761
  • Alucita costellaFabricius, 1775

Ypsolopha parenthesella is a moth of the family Ypsolophidae. It is found from Europe to Japan, as well as north-eastern China, Asia Minor and mideast Asia.

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The wingspan is 16–20 mm.Head white or ochreous-whitish. Forewings pale or rather deep golden-ochreous, with scattered blackish strigulae, sometimes much suffused with dark bronzy-fuscous; usually a white longitudinal blotch extending along or beneath basal half of costa; a blackish dot above tornus, and another at apex.Hindwings grey.Larva yellowish-green; subdorsal line slender, yellowish; dots black; head brownish. [2] It is a variable species, especially in wing pattern and colour. [3]

Adults are on wing from August to September. The larvae feed on various trees, including Quercus , Fagus , Fraxinus , Populus , Carpinus (including Carpinus betulus ), Crataegus , Malus , Betula and Corylus avellana .

References

  1. Fauna Europaea
  2. Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London pdf PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain . Keys and description
  3. UKmoths