Spuleria

Spuleria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Elachistidae (disputed)
Subfamily:	Parametriotinae
Genus:	Spuleria; Hofmann, 1897
Species:	S. flavicaput
Binomial name
	Spuleria flavicaput; (Haworth, 1828)
Synonyms
	Porrectaria flavicaput Haworth, 1828; Chrysoclista flavicaput; Tinea aurifrontella Geyer, [1832]; Rösler[s]tammia aurocapitella Bruand, [1851]; Chrysoclysta flavicapitella Doubleday, 1859;

Spuleria is a genus of moths of the Elachistidae family. It contains only one species Spuleria flavicaput, which is found in most of Europe and Anatolia.

The wingspan is 12–14 mm. Adults are on wing from May to June.

The larvae feed on Crataegus monogyna and Crataegus laevigata. They mine the young twigs of their host plant in summer and the beginning of fall. Pupation takes place in the mine. Before pupation, the larva seal the mine entrance with a spinning. Larvae can be found from September to March or April.^[2]

Taxonomy

Some authors list the genus as a synonym of Chrysoclista. If valid, the genus is mostly placed in the Elachistidae family, but other authors list it as a member of the Agonoxenidae, Cosmopterigidae or Blastodacnidae family.

References

^ Fauna Europaea
^ Karl Traugott Schütze: Die Biologie der Kleinschmetterlinge unter besonderer Berücksichtigung ihrer Nährpflanzen und Erscheinungszeiten. Handbuch der Microlepidopteren. Raupenkalender geordnet nach der Illustrierten deutschen Flora von H. Wagner. Frankfurt am Main, Verlag des Internationalen Entomologischen Vereins e. V., 1931, S. 102

External links

Ian Kimber: Guide to the moths of Great Britain and Ireland

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[1] Fauna Europaea

[2] Karl Traugott Schütze: Die Biologie der Kleinschmetterlinge unter besonderer Berücksichtigung ihrer Nährpflanzen und Erscheinungszeiten. Handbuch der Microlepidopteren. Raupenkalender geordnet nach der Illustrierten deutschen Flora von H. Wagner. Frankfurt am Main, Verlag des Internationalen Entomologischen Vereins e. V., 1931, S. 102

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