Depressaria marcella

Depressaria marcella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Oecophoridae
Genus: Depressaria
Species: D. marcella
Binomial name
Depressaria marcella
Rebel, 1901
Synonyms
  • Depressaria chneouriella Lucas, 1939
  • Depressaria cuprinella Walsingham, 1907
  • Platyedra cruenta Meyrick, 1920
  • Depressaria marcella marcidella Walsingham, 1907

Depressaria marcella is a moth of the Oecophoridae family. It is found in France, Spain, Portugal, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Greece and Turkey and on Sardinia and Sicily.[1] It has also been recorded from Israel,[2] Iran and North Africa.[3]

The wingspan is about 15 mm. The forewings are light brownish, towards the base faintly rosy-tinged and in the disc somewhat mixed with whitish-ochreous. There is an undefined rather dark fuscous suffusion forming a basal patch, as well as a streak along the costa and there are oblique streaks from this to the disc before and beyond the middle indicating the stigmata. There is a rather broad angulated subterminal fascia and a narrow terminal fascia almost confluent with it. The hindwings are light grey.[4]

The larvae feed on the flower buds of Daucus species, including Daucus carota and Daucus muricatus.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Fauna Europaea
  2. ↑ Jonathan's Check-List of Israeli insects
  3. ↑ Dritter Nachtrag zur Mikrolepidopterenfauna Zyperns
  4. ↑ Exotic Microlep. 2 (10): 298
  5. ↑ New and interesting Portuguese Lepidoptera records from 2008 (Insecta: Lepidoptera)
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