Xenolechia aethiops
| Xenolechia aethiops | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Xenolechia |
| Species: | X. aethiops |
| Binomial name | |
| Xenolechia aethiops (Humphreys & Westwood, 1845)[1] | |
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Xenolechia aethiops is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It is found from Ireland, Great Britain and Denmark to the Iberian Peninsula, Sardinia, Italy and Greece.
A sprig of "heath" eaten by larva
Larva
The wingspan is about 18 mm. Adults are on wing in May and June.[2]
The larvae feed on Erica cinerea. Young larvae mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine is probably a small fleck mine. Older larva make a tunnel of silk on a twig. The silk is mixed with frass and leaf fragments. The larvae feed on the leaves from within this tunnel.[3]