Callisto coffeella

Callisto coffeella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Infraorder:	Heteroneura
Family:	Gracillariidae
Genus:	Callisto
Species:	C. coffeella
Binomial name
	Callisto coffeella; (Zetterstedt, 1839)
Synonyms
	Oecophora interruptella Zetterstedt, 1839; Oecophora coffeella Zeller, 1839; Annickia alpicola Gibeaux, 1990;

Callisto coffeella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae found in Europe. It was first described by Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt in 1839.

Description[]

The wingspan is 10–12 mm. There is one generation per year, with adults on wing in June.^[2]

The larvae feed on mountain willow (Salix arbuscula), tea-leaved willow (Salix phylicifolia), and , mining the leaves of their host plant. Young larvae make a distinctly folded lower-surface tentiform mine. After some time, this mine is vacated and the larva lives freely in a leaf margin that has been folded downwards and is secured with silk. In small leaves the two halves are simply spun together in a pod. Two of these leaf folds are made and eaten out.^[3]

Distribution[]

The moth is found from Fennoscandia and northern Russia to the Pyrenees, Italy and Romania and from Scotland to Ukraine.

References[]

^ "Callisto coffeella (Zetterstedt, 1839)". Fauna Europaea. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
^ "The Moths of Suffolk". Archived from the original on 2012-03-14. Retrieved 2010-11-04.
^ "bladmineerders.nl". Archived from the original on 2012-09-09. Retrieved 2010-11-04.

External links[]

Media related to Callisto coffeella at Wikimedia Commons

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[1] "Callisto coffeella (Zetterstedt, 1839)". Fauna Europaea. Retrieved 26 December 2019.

[2] "The Moths of Suffolk". Archived from the original on 2012-03-14. Retrieved 2010-11-04.

[3] "bladmineerders.nl". Archived from the original on 2012-09-09. Retrieved 2010-11-04.

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