Bryotropha terrella: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Gelechiidae
- Genus
- Bryotropha
- Species
- Bryotropha terrella
- Scientific Name
- Bryotropha terrella
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Bryotropha terrella
Bryotropha terrella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is the type species of the genus Bryotropha. It is found in Europe.
The wingspan is 14–16 mm. Forewings very variable in ground colour - dark fuscous, shades of brown and grey to cream (coastal form), dark shining bronzy base of costa purplish-tinged. Variously showing the ‘bryotropha’ spots, a sub-terminal fascia and spots around the wing tip or unicolorous. Hindwings grey. Certain identification is by miscroscopic examination of the genitalia.
The moths are on wing from May to August depending on the location.
The larvae feed on various mosses and grasses, including Rhytidiadelphus squarrosus, Syntrichia ruraliformis, Hypnum jutlandicum, Calliergonella cuspidata and Agrostis capillaris.
...Bryotropha terrella in languages:
- Dutch
- Oranje mospalpmot
- English
- cinerous neb
- Finnish
- ruskosammalkoi
- Swedish
- brun mossmal
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Bryotropha affinis
- Bryotropha aliterrella
- Bryotropha altitudophila
- Bryotropha arabica
- Bryotropha azovica
- Bryotropha basaltinella
- Bryotropha boreella
- Bryotropha branella
- Bryotropha desertella
- Bryotropha domestica
- Bryotropha dryadella
- Bryotropha figulella
- Bryotropha galbanella
- Bryotropha gallurella
- Bryotropha gemella
- Bryotropha heckfordi
- Bryotropha hendrikseni
- Bryotropha hodgesi
- Bryotropha hulli
- Bryotropha italica
- Bryotropha mundella
- Bryotropha nupponeni
- Bryotropha pallorella
- Bryotropha parapurpurella
- Bryotropha patockai
- Bryotropha plantariella
- Bryotropha plebejella
- Bryotropha politella
- Bryotropha purpurella
- Bryotropha rossica
- Bryotropha sabulosella
- Bryotropha satschkovi
- Bryotropha sattleri
- Bryotropha senectella
- Bryotropha similis
- Bryotropha sutteri
- Bryotropha svenssoni
- Bryotropha tachyptilella
- Bryotropha terrella
- Bryotropha umbrosella
- Bryotropha vondermuhlli
- Bryotropha wolschrijni































































































































































