Paraswammerdamia albicapitella
| Paraswammerdamia albicapitella | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Yponomeutidae |
| Genus: | Paraswammerdamia |
| Species: | P. albicapitella |
| Binomial name | |
| Paraswammerdamia albicapitella (Scharfenberg, 1805) | |
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Paraswammerdamia albicapitella is a moth of the Yponomeutidae family. It is found in most of Europe, except the western part of the Balkan Peninsula, Ukraine, Lithuania and Latvia.[1]
The wingspan is 10–13 mm. Adults are greyish with a white head and thorax. They are on wing in July.[2]
The larvae feed on Prunus spinosa. They initially mine the leaves of their host plant. After overwintering in a silken enclosure, they feed freely on the leaves from within a silk web. Mining larvae can be found in September. The larvae have a reddish brown body and light brown head.[3]