Digitivalva granitella

Digitivalva granitella is a moth of the family Acrolepiidae. It is found in most of Continental Europe, except Fennoscandia, the Netherlands, Portugal, the Baltic region, the western part of the Balkan Peninsula and Ukraine.[1]

Digitivalva granitella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Acrolepiidae
Genus: Digitivalva
Species:
D. granitella
Binomial name
Digitivalva granitella
(Treitschke, 1833)
Synonyms
  • Tinea granitella Treitschke, 1833
  • Acrolepia granitella
  • Inuliphila granitella
  • Acrolepia variella Muller-Rutz, 1920

The wingspan is 11–14 mm.[2] Adults are on wing from June to July and again from August to September in two generations per year. The adult overwinters and reappears the following spring.[3]

The larvae feed on Inula conyza. They mine the leaves of their host plant. Pupation takes place outside of the mine.[4] Larvae can be found from April to May and again from June to July.

References

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  1. Fauna Europaea
  2. LOT Moths and Butterflies
  3. "Lepidoptera of Belgium". Archived from the original on 2011-02-15. Retrieved 2012-04-06.
  4. "bladmineerders.nl". Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2012-04-06.