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Mompha
miscella (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) Brown Cosmet Tinea
miscella
Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775.
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Leaf-miner: Initially a gallery is made and filled with frass. It is widened abruptly into a blotch, which absorbs the gallery and may occupy the whole leaf. The frass may then be dispersed or heaped in the blotch. A larva may mine more than one leaf before it vacates the mine (UKMoths). Corridor, densely packed with frass, suddenly widening into a blotch that often occupies the entire width of the leaf, then overrunning the initial corridor. Frass in the blotch disersed or clumped. The larvae can leave the mine and restart elsewhere. Pupation outside the mine (Bladmineerders van Europa). The 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 (Bladmineerders van Europa). Pupa: The pupae of moths have visible head appendages, wings and legs which lie in sheaths (see examples). Pupation in a silk cocoon among leaf litter (UKMoths; 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: October-April and June-July (UKMoths; British leafminers). Time of year - adults: The adults fly in two generations, primarily May-mid June, and mid July-August, but specimens can be found any time from late April to early October. Adults can often be taken in a fine meshed net by day, if the foodplants or nearby low vegetation are disturbed (UKMoths). Distribution in Great Britain and Ireland: The distribution of this moth follows that of its foodplants; rockroses (Helianthemum spp.), which are confined to limestone and chalk in southern Britain, but extends onto slightly acid soils in N.E. England and E. Scotland. It is usually a common moth, wherever its foodplants occur (UKMoths), including Anglesey, Berkshire, Caernarvonshire, Cambridgeshire, Cardinganshire, Denbighshire, Derbyshire, Dorset, Durham, East Gloucestershire, East Kent, East Suffolk, Flintshire, Glamorgan, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, Kincardineshire, Leicestershire, Montgomeryshire, North Hampshire, North Somerset, Pembrokeshire, Shropshire, South Aberdeenshire, South Wiltshire, South Northumberland, South-west Yorkshire, Stafford, West Gloucestershire, West Lancashire, West Norfolk and Westmorland (NBN Atlas). See also British leafminers distribution map. Distribution elsewhere: Widespread in continental Europe including Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Corsica, Crete, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Danish mainland, Estonia, Finland, French mainland, Germany, Greek mainland, Hungary, Italian mainland, Latvia, Macedonia, Poland, Portuguese mainland, Romania, Russia - South, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spanish mainland, 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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