Biology:Aspilapteryx multipunctella

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Short description: Species of moth

Aspilapteryx multipunctella
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Aspilapteryx
Species:
A. multipunctella
Binomial name
Aspilapteryx multipunctella
Chrétien, 1917[1]

Aspilapteryx multipunctella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Spain and the Canary Islands.

The larvae feed on Plantago albicans and Plantago arborescens. They mine the leaves of their host plant. Young larvae spins two to three leaves together, and mine these out completely. Older larvae live freely in the centre of a bundle of leaves of the tip of a shoot. The frass is deposited on the bottom of this enclosed space. Pupation takes place in a cocoon with a tube like prolongation that extends up to a circular opening, closed with silk, that will permit the escape of the imago.[2]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q4808056 entry