Biology:Antispila treitschkiella
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Heliozelidae |
| Genus: | Antispila |
| Species: | A. treitschkiella
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| Antispila treitschkiella (Fischer von Röslerstamm, 1843)[1]
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Antispila treitschkiella is a species of moth of the family Heliozelidae. It is found from Great Britain to Ukraine and from Sweden to France , Italy and Greece. It is also found in Portugal.
The wingspan is about 6 mm. Adults are on wing from the end of April to the beginning of June and from July to August.[2]
The larvae feed on Cornus mas and Cornus sanguinea. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine starts as a corridor of about 10 mm closely following the leaf margin and containing much frass. Later, the direction reverses and turns into a full depth blotch. Here, the frass is deposited in scattered grains. Full-grown larvae cover an oval section at the margin of the blotch with a layer of silk. They then cut this loose and drops to the ground within it.[3] Larvae can be found in July and from the end of August to early October. The species overwinters in the larval stage, within the case.
References
Wikidata ☰ Q4775302 entry
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