Mompha conturbatella

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Mompha conturbatella
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Mompha conturbatella

Systematics
Class : Insects (Insecta)
Order : Butterflies (Lepidoptera)
Superfamily : Gelechioidea
Family : Fringed moths (Momphidae)
Genre : Mompha
Type : Mompha conturbatella
Scientific name
Mompha conturbatella
( Huebner , 1819)

Mompha conturbatella is a butterfly ( moth ) fromthe fringed moth family (Momphidae).

features

The moths reach a wingspan of 16 to 18 millimeters. The forewings are blackish and have a white costal spot at 4/5 of the forewing length. Almost below it is a white spot on the inner edge of the wing. A gray basal spot and several ocher and lead gray spots are distributed along the fore wing.

In the males, the cucullus is wide and largely rounded at the tip. The saccule is wide and tapers abruptly to a blunt apex that does not reach the tip of the cucullus. The gnathos is small and triangular. The anellus lobes are short and extend straight to the apex of the aedeagus . The aedeagus is short and thick and provided with a thorn-like cornutus.

In females, the antevaginal lamella has two sclerotized lobes. The eighth tergite is almost square. The vaginal sinus is wide. The ductus bursae is short and sclerotized, the sclerotization extends over the wall of the corpus bursae.

distribution

Mompha conturbatella is native to the Holarctic . The distribution area extends from Europe over the Caucasus and Central Asia to the Russian Far East . The species is also common in North America . In southern Europe and Central Asia it is restricted to mountain regions.

biology

The host plants of the caterpillars are the narrow-leaved willowherb ( Epilobium angustifolium ) and the arctic willowherb ( Epilobium latifolium ). Evidence of mountain fireweed ( Epilobium montanum ) is considered unsafe. At the end of spring, the caterpillars live between tightly woven leaves at the top of the plant, where they bore themselves into the stem. The leaves are vertically spun together and often twisted a little. The caterpillars pupate in a yellow-brown, spindle-shaped cocoon in the detritus on the ground. The species forms one generation a year. The caterpillars can be observed from May to June, the moths hatch in June and fly until the beginning of May of the following year. They overwinter in the dried up stems of the host plants. The moths come to light .

Systematics

The following synonyms are known from the literature:

  • Tinea conturbatella Huebner , [1819]
  • Lita elegantella Zetterstedt , 1840

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d J. C. Koster, S. Yu. Sinev: Momphidae, Batrachedridae, Stathmopodidae, Agonoxenidae, Cosmopterigidae, Chrysopeleiidae . In: P. Huemer, O. Karsholt, L. Lyneborg (eds.): Microlepidoptera of Europe . 1st edition. tape 5 . Apollo Books, Stenstrup 2003, ISBN 87-88757-66-8 , pp. 29 (English).
  2. ↑ Guide to the moths of Great Britain and Ireland. Mompha conturbatella (Huebner, 1819). Ian Kimber, accessed October 4, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Karl Traugott Schütze: The biology of the small butterflies with special consideration of their nutrient plants and times of appearance. Handbook of Microlepidoptera. Caterpillar calendar arranged according to the illustrated German Flora by H. Wagner. Verlag des Internationale Entomologische Verein e. V., Frankfurt am Main 1931, p. 143
  4. ^ Mompha conturbatella in Fauna Europaea. Retrieved October 4, 2011

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