Callisto coffeella

Callisto coffeella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae found in Europe. It was first described by Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt in 1839.

Callisto coffeella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Infraorder:
Heteroneura
Family:
Gracillariidae
Genus:
Callisto
Species:
C. coffeella
Binomial name
Callisto coffeella
Synonyms
  • Oecophora interruptella Zetterstedt, 1839
  • Oecophora coffeella Zeller, 1839
  • Annickia alpicola Gibeaux, 1990

Description

The wingspan is 10–12 mm. There is one generation per year, with adults on wing in June.[2]

The larvae feed on mountain willow (Salix arbuscula), tea-leaved willow (Salix phylicifolia), and Salix silesiaca, mining the leaves of their host plant. Young larvae make a distinctly folded lower-surface tentiform mine. After some time, this mine is vacated and the larva lives freely in a leaf margin that has been folded downwards and is secured with silk. In small leaves the two halves are simply spun together in a pod. Two of these leaf folds are made and eaten out.[3]

Distribution

The moth is found from Fennoscandia and northern Russia to the Pyrenees, Italy and Romania and from Scotland to Ukraine.

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References
  1. "Callisto coffeella (Zetterstedt, 1839)". Fauna Europaea. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
  2. "The Moths of Suffolk". Archived from the original on 2012-03-14. Retrieved 2010-11-04.
  3. "bladmineerders.nl". Archived from the original on 2012-09-09. Retrieved 2010-11-04.

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