Cosmopterix coryphaea

Cosmopterix coryphaea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Cosmopterigidae
Genus: Cosmopterix
Species: C. coryphaea
Binomial name
Cosmopterix coryphaea
(Walsingham, 1908)[1]
Synonyms
  • Cosmopteryx coryphaea Walsingham, 1908
  • Cosmopteryx coryphae Agenjo, 1952
  • Cosmopteryx donatellae Mariani, 1932
  • Cosmopteryx formosa Amsel, 1935

Cosmopterix coryphaea is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from the Canary Islands and the Mediterranean region from Spain to Cyprus.

The wingspan is 9–10 mm.[2]

The larvae feed on Phragmites australis. They mine te leaves of their host plant. The mine consists of a gallery, widening upwards into an elongate blotch. Most frass is piled in the older, lower section of the mine, but part of it is ejected. Pupation takes place inside of the mine.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Fauna Europaea
  2. ↑ lepiforum.de
  3. ↑ bladmineerders.nl
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