Bucculatrix bechsteinella: taxon details and analytics

Domain
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Bucculatricidae
Genus
Bucculatrix
Species
Bucculatrix bechsteinella
Scientific Name
Bucculatrix bechsteinella

Summary description from Wikipedia:

Bucculatrix bechsteinella

Bucculatrix bechsteinella is a moth of the family Bucculatricidae. It was described by Johann Matthäus Bechstein and Georg Ludwig Scharfenberg in 1805. It is found in most of Europe, except Greece and Bulgaria.

The wingspan is 7–9 mm. The head is pale fuscous, mixed in middle with blackish. Forewings are brownish-whitish, irrorated with dark fuscous; a more or less distinct dark streak along fold from base to near middle, often incomplete; three oblique costal spots between 1/3 and apex, and a median dorsal spot suffusedly dark fuscous: second discal stigma forming a short blackish dash. Hindwings are grey. The larva is dull green, more yellowish above; dorsal line darker; dots yellowish and the head pale brown

Adults are on wing from mid-May to mid-August. The larvae feed on Amelanchier, Chaenomeles, Cotoneaster, Crataegus douglasii, Crataegus laevigata, Crataegus monogyna, Cydonia oblonga, Malus domestica, Mespilus germanica, Prunus insititia, Prunus spinosa, Pyracantha coccinea, Pyrus communis, Sorbus aria, Sorbus aucuparia and Sorbus torminalis. They mine the leaves of their host plant. Larvae can be found from June to August.

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Bucculatrix bechsteinella in languages:

Czech
chobotníček hlohový
Danish
Tjørne-øjeklapmøl
Dutch
Meidoornooglapmot
English
Hawthorn Bent-wing
Finnish
pihlajatöyhtökoi
German
Weißdorn-Zwergwickler
Hungarian
galagonya-bordásmoly
Lithuanian
Vaismedinė skeletuojanti kandelė
Swedish
hagtornskronmal

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Bucculatrix bechsteinella
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Bucculatrix bechsteinella
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Bucculatrix bechsteinella
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Bucculatrix bechsteinella
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Bucculatrix bechsteinella
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Bucculatrix bechsteinella
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Bucculatrix bechsteinella
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Bucculatrix bechsteinella
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Bucculatrix bechsteinella
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Bucculatrix bechsteinella
©lantinantoine, some rights reserved (CC-BY-NC)
Bucculatrix bechsteinella
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Bucculatrix bechsteinella
©Gerrit Öhm, some rights reserved (CC-BY-NC)
Bucculatrix bechsteinella
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Bucculatrix bechsteinella
©brudermann, some rights reserved (CC-BY-NC)
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Bucculatrix bechsteinella
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Bucculatrix bechsteinella
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Bucculatrix bechsteinella
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Bucculatrix bechsteinella
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Bucculatrix bechsteinella
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Bucculatrix bechsteinella
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Bucculatrix bechsteinella
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Bucculatrix bechsteinella
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Bucculatrix bechsteinella
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Bucculatrix bechsteinella
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Bucculatrix bechsteinella
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Bucculatrix bechsteinella
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Bucculatrix bechsteinella
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Bucculatrix bechsteinella
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Bucculatrix bechsteinella
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Bucculatrix bechsteinella
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Bucculatrix bechsteinella
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Bucculatrix bechsteinella
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Bucculatrix bechsteinella
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Bucculatrix bechsteinella
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Bucculatrix bechsteinella
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Bucculatrix bechsteinella
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Bucculatrix bechsteinella
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Bucculatrix bechsteinella
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Bucculatrix bechsteinella
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Bucculatrix bechsteinella
©brudermann, some rights reserved (CC-BY-NC)
Bucculatrix bechsteinella
©lantinantoine, some rights reserved (CC-BY-NC)
Bucculatrix bechsteinella
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Bucculatrix bechsteinella
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Bucculatrix bechsteinella
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Bucculatrix bechsteinella
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Bucculatrix bechsteinella
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Bucculatrix bechsteinella
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Bucculatrix bechsteinella
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Bucculatrix bechsteinella
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Bucculatrix bechsteinella
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Bucculatrix bechsteinella
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