Mompha miscella

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Mompha miscella
Mompha miscella, Llanymynech Hill, North Wales, April 2014 (19923494158) .jpg

Mompha miscella

Systematics
Class : Insects (Insecta)
Order : Butterflies (Lepidoptera)
Superfamily : Gelechioidea
Family : Fringed moths (Momphidae)
Genre : Mompha
Type : Mompha miscella
Scientific name
Mompha miscella
( Denis & Schiffermüller , 1775)

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

features

The moths reach a wingspan of 7 to 9 millimeters. The head is gray and dark gray mottled forehead ( frons ) is creamy white. The antennae are gray and ringed light gray in the basal half. In females, the antennae have five white segments at the top, each divided by three gray segments. The thorax is speckled gray and dark gray. The forewings are ocher brown and have a gray spot at the base. A gray, obliquely outward-running band is 1/3 of the fore wing length. It widens towards the inner edge of the wing. A knee-shaped, gray band runs at 2/3 of the forewing length. A similar bandage is located on the apex , this does not extend to the Costa loader . Two spots of protruding black scales are located subdorsally on the outer edge of the inner and middle bandages. In the anal fold there is a small white spot at 1/3 of the fore wing length. A similar spot lies in the middle of the wing above the anal fold. A white costal spot can be seen at 3/4 of the forewing length. In females, the spots on the forewings are larger. The hind wings are light brownish gray.

In the males, the cucullus is parallel and has a rounded apex. The saccule is longer than the cucullus and has a fairly broad basal half. The distal half is long and slender and slightly curved. The apex is pointed. The uncus is slim and pointed. The anellus lobes are short and rounded. The aedeagus is slender and has one long curved and two short cornuti.

In females, the 8th tergite is broad and only slightly sclerotized . The antevaginal lamella is semicircular, the postvaginal lamella has two hairy lobes. The ostium is cup-shaped, has a concave posterior margin and a rectangular sclerite. The ductus bursae is narrow and more than twice as long as the corpus bursae. It runs in a loop in the front section. The corpus bursae is egg-shaped and has sickle-shaped signs that are embedded obliquely in the center of a semicircular sclerite.

distribution

Mompha miscella is widespread in Europe. In the north the distribution area extends to the south of Fennos Scandinavia . The species is also native to Asia Minor and North Africa.

biology

The species forms two generations a year, which often overlap. The caterpillars develop on yellow sun rose ( Helianthemum nummularium ), Apennine sun rose ( Helianthemum apenninum) , gray sun rose ( Helianthemum canum ), Helianthemum ovatum and, in southern Europe, also on rockrose species ( Cistus ). The caterpillars feed from October to May and from June to July , mainly mining in the leaves. At first, the mine is just a feeding tunnel filled with caterpillar droppings, later it becomes a space mine that often takes up the entire leaf. The second generation caterpillars also develop in the flowers and seeds. They pupate in a cocoon in the litter layer . The moths fly from late April to early October, they have the greatest frequency from May to the first half of June and from the second half of July to the end of August.

Systematics

The following synonyms are known from the literature:

  • Tinea miscella [ Denis & Schiffermüller ], 1775
  • Lophoptilus staintoni Sircom , 1848
  • Tebenna opacella Müller-Rutz , 1934

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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. 44 (English).
  2. ↑ a b Mompha miscella at Fauna Europaea. Retrieved November 24, 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. Frankfurt am Main, publishing house of the International Entomological Association e. V., 1931, p. 141

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