Aspilapteryx tringipennella: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Gracillariidae
- Genus
- Aspilapteryx
- Species
- Aspilapteryx tringipennella
- Scientific Name
- Aspilapteryx tringipennella
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Aspilapteryx tringipennella
Aspilapteryx tringipennella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from all of Europe.
The wingspan is 10–13 mm. Forewings pale greyish ochreous to light ochreous-yellow; an ill-defined white costal streak from base to near apex; subcostal and median longitudinal rows of black dots, and sometimes two or three on fold. Hindwings grey.
There are two generations per year, with adults on wing in May and again in August.
The larvae feed on Plantago lanceolata and Plantago maritima. They mine the leaves of their host plant.
...Aspilapteryx tringipennella in languages:
- Dutch
- Weegbreesteltmot
- English
- Ribwort Slender
- Finnish
- ratamotikkukoi
- Lithuanian
- Dėmėtoji keršakandė
- Swedish
- svartkämpestyltmal
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