Ptocheuusa paupella

Ptocheuusa paupella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Ptocheuusa
Species: P. paupella
Binomial name
Ptocheuusa paupella
(Zeller, 1847)[1]
Synonyms
  • Gelechia paupella Zeller, 1847
  • Aphelosetia inulella Curtis, 1850
  • Apatetris leucoglypta Meyrick, 1918

Ptocheuusa paupella, the light fleabane neb, is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found from central and southern Europe to the Ural Mountains. It is also found in Turkey and India.[2]

The wingspan is 10–12 mm. The ground colour is buff, streaked with whitish and with darker speckling. Adults are on wing in June and again from August to September.[3]

The larvae feed in the seedheads of Pulicaria dysenterica, Centaurea nigra and Inula crithmoides.[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. ↑ UKmoths
  4. ↑ microlepidoptera.nl Archived 2013-10-05 at the Wayback Machine.



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