Acrolepiopsis tauricella

Acrolepiopsis tauricella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Acrolepiidae
Genus: Acrolepiopsis
Species:
A. tauricella
Binomial name
Acrolepiopsis tauricella
(Staudinger, 1870)
Synonyms
  • Acrolepia tauricella Staudinger, 1870
  • Acrolepia karolyii Szocs, 1969
  • Acrolepia similella Muller-Rutz, 1920

Acrolepiopsis tauricella is a moth of the family Acrolepiidae. It is found Italy, Switzerland, Hungary and Ukraine.[1]

The larvae feed on Tamus communis. They mine the leaves of their host plant. Young larvae make one or two small full depth blotch mines.[2] The larvae have a pale yellowish green body and head.

References

  1. ^ Fauna Europaea
  2. ^ "bladmineerders.nl". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2012-04-06.


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