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Bucculatrix
frangutella (Goeze, 1783) Buckthorn Bent-wing
Tinea
frangutella Goeze, 1783. Ent. Beitr.
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Bucculatrix frangutella Herrich-Schäffer, 1855 Bucculatrix frangutella (Goeze, 1783). |
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Leaf-miner: The highly distinctive, violet or purplish spiral mines of this species are often the key to its discovery. They can be found on leaves, often several to a leaf. After the initial leaf-mining phase, the larva feeds externally on the underside of the leaves, creating small feeding windows, before pupating in a ribbed cocoon typical of the Bucculatriginae (UKMoths). A narrow corridor, densely wound, amost entirely filled with purplish brown frass. The last 1 to 2 cm of the corridor are free from the spiral, and almost straight. At this point the mine is left and the larvae continue to live free on the leaf, causing window feeding. The empty larval chamber, obviously free from frass, is conspicuousy slender. The egg, in the very centre of the spiral, is at the leaf lower side, as is the exit from the mine (Bladmineerders van Europa). The leaf-mine is also illustrated in British leafminers. Larva: The larvae of moths have a head capsule and chewing mouthparts with opposable mandibles (see video of a gracillarid larva feeding), six thoracic legs and abdominal legs (see examples). The larva is illustrated in British leafminers. Pupa: The pupae of moths have visible head appendages, wings and legs which lie in sheaths (see examples). The cocoon is illustrated in British leafminers.
Adult: The adult is illustrated in UKMoths. The species is included in mothdissection.co.uk. Hosts in Great Britain and Ireland:
Hosts elsewhere:
Time of year - larvae: August and September (UKMoths). Time of year - adults: June and July (UKMoths; British leafminers). Distribution in Great Britain and Ireland: Mainly in the southern half of England, including Suffolk (Elveden Forest) (UKMoths), Hampshire (Fleet) (British leafminers); Cambridgeshire, Dorset, East Cornwall, East Gloucestershire, East Norfolk, East Suffolk, Glamorgan, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Isle of Wight, Middlesex, North Hampshire, South Devon, West Norfolk, West Suffolk and Westmorland (NBN Atlas), with occasional scattered colonies further north (UKMoths). See also British leafminers distribution map. Also recorded in the Republic of Ireland (Fauna Europaea and National Biodiversity Data Centre Map). Distribution elsewhere: Widespread in continental Europe including Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Danish mainland, Estonia, Finland, French mainland, Hungary, Italian mainland, Kaliningrad Region, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Norwegian mainland, Poland, Romania, Russia - Central and Northwest, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Ukraine and Yugoslavia (Fauna Europaea). NBN Atlas links to known host species:
British and Irish Parasitoids in Britain and elsewhere:
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