Tinagma balteolella

Tinagma balteolella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Douglasiidae
Genus: Tinagma
Species: T. balteolella
Binomial name
Tinagma balteolella
(Fischer von Röslerstamm, 1841)
Synonyms
  • Aechmia balteolella Fischer von Röslerstamm, 1841
  • Tinagma balteolellum
  • Tinagma borkhauseniella Herrich-Schaffer, 1855

Tinagma balteolella is a moth in the Douglasiidae family. It is found in Great Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Spain, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine.[1] It is also found in Morocco and Jordan.

The wingspan is 8–9 mm.[2]

The larvae feed on Echium vulgare and Echium biebersteini. The mine the stems of their host plant.[3] The species overwinters in a cocoon.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Fauna Europaea
  2. ↑ European Butterflies and Moths
  3. ↑ Gaedike, R., 2007 (2009): Some new and interesting Microlepidoptera from the collection of the Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK), Bonn (Lepidoptera: Tineidae, Epermeniidae, Acrolepiidae, Douglasiidae). Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 56 (1-2): 101-106. Full article:
  4. ↑ Hants Moths
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