Depressaria marcella

Depressaria marcella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Depressariidae
Genus:	Depressaria
Species:	D. marcella
Binomial name
	Depressaria marcella; Rebel, 1901
Synonyms
	Depressaria chneouriella Lucas, 1939; Depressaria cuprinella Walsingham, 1907; Platyedra cruenta Meyrick, 1920; Depressaria marcella marcidella Walsingham, 1907;

Depressaria marcella is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in France, Spain, Portugal, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Greece and Turkey and on Sardinia and Sicily.^[1] It has also been recorded from Israel,^[2] Iran and North Africa.^[3]

The wingspan is about 15 mm. The forewings are light brownish, towards the base faintly rosy-tinged and in the disc somewhat mixed with whitish-ochreous. There is an undefined rather dark fuscous suffusion forming a basal patch, as well as a streak along the costa and there are oblique streaks from this to the disc before and beyond the middle indicating the stigmata. There is a rather broad angulated subterminal fascia and a narrow terminal fascia almost confluent with it. The hindwings are light grey.^[4]

The larvae feed on the flower buds of Daucus species, including Daucus carota and .^[5]

References[]

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[1] Fauna Europaea

[2] Jonathan's Check-List of Israeli insects^{[permanent dead link]}

[3] Dritter Nachtrag zur Mikrolepidopterenfauna Zyperns

[4] Exotic Microlep. 2 (10): 298

[5] New and interesting Portuguese Lepidoptera records from 2008 (Insecta: Lepidoptera)

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