Biology:Digitivalva granitella
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Acrolepiidae |
| Genus: | Digitivalva |
| Species: | D. granitella
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| Binomial name | |
| Digitivalva granitella (Treitschke, 1833)
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Digitivalva granitella is a moth of the family Acrolepiidae. It is found in most of Continental Europe, except Fennoscandia, the Netherlands, Portugal, the Baltic region, the western part of the Balkan Peninsula and Ukraine .[1]
The wingspan is 11–14 mm.[2] Adults are on wing from June to July and again from August to September in two generations per year. The adult overwinters and reappears the following spring.[3]
The larvae feed on Inula conyza. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form a long and narrow corridor that starts at the midrib or at the leaf base. Later, it becomes a large, full depth blotch nearly without any frass. A larva may vacate the mine and restart elsewhere. A second mine has no initial corridor. Pupation takes place outside of the mine.[4] Larvae can be found from April to May and again from June to July.
References
Wikidata ☰ Q5276251 entry
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