Mompha terminella
Mompha schedule ella
Mompha schedule ella is a butterfly (moth ) from the family of Frans moths ( Momphidae ).
- 5.1 Notes and references
Features
The moths have a wingspan of 7-9 millimeters. The head is dark brown and has a slight purple sheen. The forehead ( frons ) is ocher white. The antennae are dark brown, the probe tip consists of about eight white segments. The thorax is blackish brown and has a slight violet sheen. The forewings are dark orange. A lead- gray spot extends from the wing base up to 1 /3 of the forewing length at the wing base it ranges from the Costa loader to the internal wing edge. Within the spot is a black spot. A narrow brown Costalstrich enough of this black spot to a white Costalfleck at 3/ 4 of the forewing length. A lead- gray, golden shiny spot located between the vane inner edge and the anal fold. Outside it is surrounded by a tuft projecting black scales. A similar spot is located at the inner angle, it is opposite a small white Subcostalfleck. The apex is provided with black brown and shiny lead- gray lines on the outer edge. The hind wings are dark gray-brown.
In the males, the cucullus is short and broad. He is at the base of one and a half times as wide as at the top. The apex is rounded. The saccule is shorter than the cucullus, it is bent and has a rather blunt apex. The uncus is long and has a hook- shaped tip. The Gnathos the form of a needle-like band. The Anellus - lobes are short and trimmed and fitted with needles. The aedeagus is short and strong. He has a long, pointed cornutus and a busy area with needles.
In females, the eighth tergite is sclerotized rectangular and only weakly. The lobes of the 8th sternite are large and strongly sclerotized. The sterigma is bulbous front and tapered. The ostium is wide and funnel-shaped. The ductus bursae is S-shaped and about one and a half times as long as the corpus bursae. The widest sclerotized portion is connected to the ostium and rejuvenated forward. The corpus bursae is oval and has two large crescent-shaped signals.
Similar Species
Mompha schedule ella differs from the similar nature Mompha locupletella by the smaller wingspan, the black spot within the gray spot at the wing base and the two subdorsalen stains.
Dissemination
The species is native to northwestern Europe and in Central Europe. In the east the area of distribution extends to the Russian Far East. Also on the east coast of North America, the species was observed.
Biology
The caterpillars develop at Big witchweeds ( Circaea lutetiana ) Alpine witchweeds ( Circaea alpina) and Middle witchweeds ( Circaea intermedia). It makes only one generation a year. The caterpillars live from the first half of August until the first half of September (or from June to July ) and nate in the leaves. The mine starts as a narrow whitish feeding Ganges, which forms some circles or semi-circles around the egg spot. Later mines are greenish white. You then have a conspicuous burrow in which the Raupenkot emerging as black line. Sometimes both feeding tunnels are interconnected and form a big square mine, in which the lines of Raupenkots View the original burrow. The caterpillars often leave the original spiral mine to begin near or on another sheet of a new mine. The caterpillars pupate in a whitish cocoon, which is pieced on a leaf or in the litter layer, and occasionally in the mine. The moths fly from July to August (or from May to June ).
System
From the literature, the following synonyms are known:
- Glyphipteryx schedule ella Humphreys & Westwood, 1845
- Elachista patriciella Stainton, 1849
- Psacaphora chrysargyrella Herrich -Schäffer,
- Mompha angel ella Busck, 1906