Mompha miscella
Mompha miscella is a butterfly (moth ) from the family of Frans moths ( Momphidae ).
Features
The moths reach a wingspan of 7-9 millimeters. The head is mottled gray and dark gray, the forehead ( frons ) is creamy white. The antennae are curled gray and light gray in the basal half. In females, the sensor at the top have five white segments, each divided by three gray segments. The thorax is speckled gray and dark gray. The front wings are ocher- brown at the base and have a gray spot. A gray, sloping outwards binding is located at 1 /3 of the forewing length. It extends closer to the wing inner edge. With 2/ 3 of the forewing length of an elbow-shaped, gray bandage runs. A similar binding is located at the apex, this is not enough to Costa loader. Two black spots protruding scales are subdorsal on the outer edge of the inner and middle binding. In the anal fold is located at 1 /3 of the forewing length of a small white spot. A similar spot is located in the wing center above the anal fold. A white Costalfleck is seen at 3/4 of forewing length. In the females the spots are larger on the fore wings. The hind wings are pale brownish gray.
In the males, the cucullus is parallel-sided and has a rounded apex. The saccule is longer than the cucullus and has a fairly broad basal half. The distal half is long and slender and slightly curved. The apex is tapered. The uncus is slender and pointed. The Anellus lobes are short and rounded. The aedeagus is slender and has a long curved and two short Cornuti.
In females, the eighth tergite is broad and only weakly sclerotized. The Lamella antevaginalis is semicircular, the Lamella postvaginalis has two hairy lobes. The ostium is cup-shaped, has a concave rear edge and a rectangular sclerite. The ductus bursae is narrow and more than twice as long as the corpus bursae. It runs in the forward portion looped. The corpus bursae is egg-shaped and has crescent-shaped signals that are diagonally embedded in the center of a semicircular Sklerits.
Dissemination
Mompha miscella is widely used in Europe. In the north, the range extends to the south Fennoskandinaviens. Furthermore, the species is native to Asia Minor and North Africa.
Biology
It makes two generations per year, which often overlap. The caterpillars develop on yellow rock rose ( Helianthemum nummularium ), Apennine Rockrose ( Helianthemum apenninum ), Grey Rockrose ( Helianthemum canum ), Helianthemum ovatum and in southern Europe also Zistrosenarten (Cistus ). The caterpillars feed from October to May and from June to July and nate it predominantly in the leaves. First, the lead is only filled with Raupenkot feeding passage, later it becomes a square lead, often occupies the entire sheet. The caterpillars of the second generation also develop in the flowers and seeds. They pupate in a cocoon in the litter layer. The moths fly from late April to early October, the highest frequency they have of May to the first half of June and from the second half of July to late August.
System
From the literature, the following synonyms are known:
- Tinea miscella [ Denis & Schiffer Müller], 1775
- Lophoptilus staintoni Sircom, 1848
- Tebenna opacella Müller- Rutz, 1934