| Agonopterix fruticosella | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Oecophoridae (disputed) |
| Genus: | Agonopterix |
| Species: | A. fruticosella |
| Binomial name | |
| Agonopterix fruticosella (Walsingham, 1903)[1] |
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Agonopterix fruticosella is a moth of the Oecophoridae family. It is found in southern France and on the Iberian Peninsula.
The wingspan is 20-23 mm. The forewings are pale stony cinereous evenly speckled with small groups of blackish scales. The hindwings are shining, pale tawny cinereous.[2]
The larvae feed on Bupleurum rigidum species. They initially mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a broad, brownish, full depth corridor. Later, the larva vacates the mine and continues window feeding. There are often several mines in a single leaf. Even later, the larva lives free under a spinning and eventually folds a leaf margin fastening it with silk.[3] Larvae can be found at the end of June.