Cosmardia moritzella

Cosmardia moritzella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in Portugal, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Belarus, Hungary, Romania, Greece, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Norway, Ukraine and Russia[1] (Ural Mountains, Altai Mountains and south-western Siberia).[2]

Cosmardia moritzella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Gelechiidae
Genus:
Cosmardia
Species:
C. moritzella
Binomial name
Cosmardia moritzella
(Treitschke, 1835)
Synonyms
  • Oecophora moritzella Treitschke, 1835
  • Lita moritzella Geyer, 1836
  • Tinea morizella

The wingspan is 13–14 mm.[3]

The larvae feed on Silene latifolia and Silene dioica.[4]

References
  1. Fauna Europaea
  2. Junnilainen, J. et al. 2010: The gelechiid fauna of the southern Ural Mountains, part II: list of recorded species with taxonomic notes (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Zootaxa, 2367: 1–68. Preview
  3. wibe.ath.cx Archived 2013-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
  4. lepiforum.de


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