Anchinia cristalis
| Anchinia cristalis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Oecophoridae |
| Genus: | Anchinia |
| Species: | A. cristalis |
| Binomial name | |
| Anchinia cristalis (Scopoli, 1763)[1] | |
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Anchinia cristalis is a species of moth of the Oecophoridae family. It is found in most of Europe (except most of the Balkan Peninsula, Portugal, Great Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Finland and Ukraine) east to the eastern parts of the Palearctic ecozone.
The wingspan is 14–19 mm.[2] Adults are on wing from late May to early July.
The larvae live between spun leaves of Thymelaea passerina, Daphne mezereum and Daphne laureola.[3]
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