Teleiodes luculella
Teleiodes luculella, the crescent groundling, is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found from Europe to the southern Ural and Transcaucasia.[2] The habitat consists of woodlands, including oak woodlands.[3]
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Teleiodes |
| Species: | T. luculella |
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The wingspan is 9–13 mm.[4] Adults are on wing from May to June.
The larvae feed on Quercus, Castanea sativa, Betula, Acer and Salix eleagnos. They feed between spun leaves of their host plant. Larvae can be found in September. The species overwinters in the pupal stage within a cocoon on the ground.[5]
References
- Fauna Europaea
- 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
- Hants Moths
- microlepidoptera.nl Archived 2013-10-04 at the Wayback Machine
- UKmoths
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