Longhorn leaf miners

Longhorn leaf miners
Leucoptera spartifoliella
Systematics
Class : Insects (Insecta) Subclass : Flying insects (Pterygota) Superordinate : New winged wing (Neoptera) Order : Butterflies (Lepidoptera) Superfamily : Yponomeutoidea Family : Longhorn leaf miners
Scientific name
Lyonetiidae
Stainton , 1854

The longhorn leaf miners or snake miners (Lyonetiidae) are a family of butterflies (Lepidoptera).

features

The moths reach a wingspan of 6 to 12 millimeters. They are long and slender. The forewings are usually colored shiny metallic (e.g. metallic gray) or have metallic patterns. However, some species are simply colored. The hind wings, which are monochrome in all species, are narrower than the front wings and in some species they are fringed at the end. They have long antennae that can almost reach the length of the body and that are uncombed in the males too. The maxillary palps (jaw palpation) are strongly regressed and consist of one to three segments. The labial palps (lip palpals), on the other hand, are fully developed in some species, short in others or also receded. The first pair of legs is very hairy. In the resting position they lay their very narrow front and rear wings folded on the abdomen.

The fore wings have 7 to 10 wing veins with one or two anal veins (1b or 1b and 1c). The hind wings have a strongly reduced wing veining with three to six veins and no anal veins.

Way of life

The eggs are either smooth or lightly textured. The nocturnal larvae have a large spectrum of forage plants and eat minerals in leaves. You create "serpentine" corridors. They pupate in a web either on the ground or on the leaves outside the mine.

Some types, such as B. from Africa to South America entrained Leucoptera caffeina , the coffee plants afflicting pests in agriculture .

Systematics

The family of the longhorn leaf miner moths is represented in the German-speaking area (A-CH-D) with 16 species. There are 30 species in all of Europe .

Subfamily Cemiostominae

• Leucoptera aceris ( Fuchs , 1903) A, D
• Leucoptera genistae ( M. Hering , 1933) A.
• Leucoptera heringiella Toll , 1938 A
• Leucoptera laburnella ( Stainton , 1851) A, CH, D
• Leucoptera lathyrifoliella ( Stainton , 1866) D.
• Leucoptera lotella ( Stainton , 1859) A, CH, D
• Leucoptera lustratella ( Herrich-Schäffer , 1855) A, D
• Leucoptera malifoliella ( O. Costa , 1836) A, CH, D
• Leucoptera onobrychidella Klimesch , 1937 A, D
• Leucoptera sinuella ( Reutti , 1853) A, CH, D
• Leucoptera spartifoliella ( Huebner , 1813) A, CH, D

Subfamily Lyonetiinae

• Fruit tree miner moth ( Lyonetia clerkella ) ( Linnaeus , 1758) A, CH, D
• Lyonetia ledi Wocke , 1859 A, D
• Lyonetia prunifoliella ( Huebner , 1796) A, CH, D
• Lyonetia pulverulentella Zeller , 1839 A, CH, D
• Phyllobrostis hartmanni Staudinger , 1867 A, CH, D

Non-European species

• Leucoptera caffeina (Africa)
• Leucoptera coffeella (South America and the Caribbean)
• Leucoptera meyricki (Africa)

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Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} British Insects: the Families of Lepidoptera. L. Watson and MJ Dallwitz, accessed September 7, 2006 . 
2. ↑ Lyonetiidae. Lepiforum eV, accessed on September 7, 2006 . 
3. ↑ Lyonetiidae in Fauna Europaea. Retrieved February 26, 2011

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