Acrolepiopsis tauricella

Acrolepiopsis tauricella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Acrolepiidae
Genus:	Acrolepiopsis
Species:	A. tauricella
Binomial name
	Acrolepiopsis tauricella; (Staudinger, 1870)
Synonyms
	Acrolepia tauricella Staudinger, 1870; Acrolepia karolyii Szocs, 1969; Acrolepia similella Muller-Rutz, 1920;

Acrolepiopsis tauricella is a moth of the family Acrolepiidae. It is found Italy, Switzerland, Hungary and Ukraine.^[1]

The larvae feed on Tamus communis. They mine the leaves of their host plant. Young larvae make one or two small full depth blotch mines. Most frass is ejected out of the mine though an opening in a corner of the mine. Older larvae live freely under the leaf, but keep using the mine as a shelter during feeding pauses. In this stage they cause window feeding or skeleton feeding. There are several mines in a single leaf.^[2] The larvae have a pale yellowish green body and head.

References[]

^ Fauna Europaea
^ "bladmineerders.nl". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2012-04-06.

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[1] Fauna Europaea

[2] "bladmineerders.nl". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2012-04-06.

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