Caloptilia falconipennella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Caloptilia
Species:
C. falconipennella
Binomial name
Caloptilia falconipennella
(Hübner, 1813)[1]
Synonyms
  • Tinea falconipennella Hübner, 1813
  • Caloptilia oneratella (Zeller, 1847)

Caloptilia falconipennella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from all of Europe, except the Balkan Peninsula.

The wingspan is about 13 millimetres (0.51 in). The forewings are dark reddish-fuscous irrorated with whitish ; margins and fold dotted with black and an indistinct whitish triangular costal blotch before middle. Hindwings are dark grey.[2]


Adults are on wing in September and overwinter, reappearing in the spring.[3]

The larvae feed on alder (Alnus glutinosa). They mine the leaves of their host plant which consists of a small lower-surface blotch near the leaf margin. The mine is in fact a tentiform mine, but so little silk is produced that the blotch hardly contracts at all. The mine is preceded by a quite short corridor, that is overrun by the later blotch. Older larvae leave the mine and start feeding under a flap of the leaf margin that is folded down and attached to the blade underside with silk. Two or three such folds are made on the same or another leaf.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Caloptilia falconipennella (Hübner, 1813)". Fauna Europaea. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
  2. ↑ Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London pdf Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Keys and description
  3. ↑ Kimber, Ian. "15.011 BF289 Caloptilia falconipennella (Hübner, [1813])". UKmoths. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
  4. ↑ Ellis, W N. "Caloptilia falconipennella (Hübner, 1813) scarce alder slender". Plant Parasites of Europe. Retrieved 8 August 2019.



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