Chrysoesthia eppelsheimi
Chrysoesthia eppelsheimi | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Gelechiidae |
Genus: | Chrysoesthia |
Species: | C. eppelsheimi
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Binomial name | |
Chrysoesthia eppelsheimi (Staudinger, 1885)
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Chrysoesthia eppelsheimi is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in France, Germany and Switzerland.[1]
The wingspan is 6–8 mm. There are three metallic silvery transverse fasciae on the forewings.[2]
The larvae feed on Silene flavescens, Silene nutans and Silene vulgaris. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine starts as a winding gallery with brown frass. The gallery widens into a full-depth, transparent, elongate blotch with a central black frass line.[3] Larvae can be found from June to September.
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- ^ Fauna Europaea
- ^ "Additional data on the distribution and early stages of Chrysoesthia verrucosa (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-09-27. Retrieved 2013-09-26.
- ^ "bladmineerders.nl". Archived from the original on 2013-09-28. Retrieved 2013-09-26.