Carpatolechia fugitivella

Carpatolechia fugitivella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Carpatolechia
Species: C. fugitivella
Binomial name
Carpatolechia fugitivella
(Zeller, 1839)
Synonyms
  • Gelechia fugitivella Zeller, 1839
  • Teleiodes fugitivella
  • Klaussattleria vovkella Piskunov, 1973
  • Teleiodes vovkella
  • Carpatolechia fugitivella deserta Emelyanov, 1982
  • Teleia fugitivella ab. melanella Romaniszyn, 1933

Carpatolechia fugitivella, the Elm Groundling, is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It is found in almost all of Europe (except Portugal, Croatia and Bulgaria),[1] Turkey, the Caucasus, Mongolia, southern Siberia, the Russian Far East and Korea.[2] It is also found in North America, where it has been recorded from Ontario and Quebec.[3] The habitat consists of woodland, parks, gardens and hedgerows.[4]

The wingspan is 11–15 mm. Adults have been recorded on wing from June to September.

The larvae feed on Ulmus species (including Ulmus glabra), Quercus, Corylus, Prunus avium, Pyracantha coccinea, Acer, Tilia and Fraxinus species. It lives between the spun buds and shoots of their host plant. Larvae can be found from August onwards. After overwintering, they are active up to April or May when pupation takes place in a white cocoon.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Fauna Europaea
  2. ↑ Junnilainen, J. et al. 2010: The gelechiid fauna of the southern Ural Mountains, part II: list of recorded species with taxonomic notes (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Zootaxa, 2367: 1–68. Preview
  3. ↑ mothphotographersgroup
  4. ↑ Hants Moths
  5. ↑ microlepidoptera.nl
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