Antispila metallella
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Clade: | Euarthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Heliozelidae |
Genus: | Antispila |
Species: | A. metallella |
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Antispila metallella | |
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Antispila metallella is a moth of the family Heliozelidae. It is found from Scandinavia to the Pyrenees, Alps and Romania and from Great Britain to Russia.
A mined dogwood leaf
Larva
The wingspan is 8–9 mm. Adults are bronzy metallic with paler metallic markings. They are on wing in May.[2]
The larvae feed on Cornus alba, Cornus mas and Cornus sanguinea. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine starts as a short corridor close to the leaf margin. It later widens into a large blotch, that often overruns the initial corridor. Full-grown larva make an oval excision in which they drop the ground. They continue feeding from within this excision which is now used as a case. Pupation takes place within the case.[3] Larvae can be found from July to August.
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