Recurvaria leucatella: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Gelechiidae
- Genus
- Recurvaria
- Species
- Recurvaria leucatella
- Scientific Name
- Recurvaria leucatella
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Recurvaria leucatella
Recurvaria leucatella (lesser budmoth or white-barred groundling moth) is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in most of Europe, Turkey, Central Asia and the Caucasus.
The wingspan is 14–15 mm. The head is ochreous-white. Forewings are dark fuscous; a broad white or ochreous-white fascia at 1/3; stigmata and a dot below second discal indistinctly blackish, somewhat raised; a white spot on tornus, and another on costa opposite; some white terminal scales. Hindwings are grey. The larva is light brown to whitish-green, more or less rosy-tinged; head and plate of 2 black.
The moths are on wing from June to July depending on the location.
The larvae feed on Crataegus and Malus species.
...Recurvaria leucatella in languages:
- Czech
- makadlovka sadová
- Dutch
- Gordelpalpmot
- English
- white-barred groundling
- Finnish
- tarhajäytäjäkoi
- Lithuanian
- Baltamargė rekurvarija
- Russian
- Выемчатокрылая моль боярышниковая
- Swedish
- svartvit böjmal
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