Cosmopterix lienigiella

Cosmopterix lienigiella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Cosmopterigidae
Genus:	Cosmopterix
Species:	C. lienigiella
Binomial name
	Cosmopterix lienigiella; Zeller, 1846[1]

Cosmopterix lienigiella is a moth of the family Cosmopterigidae. It is found from Fennoscandia to Spain, the Alps and Greece and from Ireland to Ukraine. It is also present in eastern Russia and Japan. It is the type species of the genus Cosmopterix.

Mined leaf blade of Phragmites

Larva

The wingspan is 10–13 mm.[2] Adults are on wing from September to April.

The larvae feed on Phragmites australis. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine starts as a gallery, but soon widens to a broad blotch, entirely or partly running upwards, in the end half as wide as the leaf. Most frass is concentrated in the first section. Pupation takes place in a cocoon in the top section of the mine.[3]

References

Fauna Europaea
Norfolk Moths
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[1] Fauna Europaea

[2] Norfolk Moths

[3] "bladmineerders.nl". Archived from the original on 2012-09-14. Retrieved 2011-03-21.