Eriocrania semipurpurella
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Eriocraniidae |
Genus: | Eriocrania |
Species: | E. semipurpurella
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Binomial name | |
Eriocrania semipurpurella (Stephens, 1835)
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Eriocrania semipurpurella (Purplish birch-miner) is a moth of the family Eriocraniidae. It is found from Europe to Japan and in North America. The species closely resembles Eriocrania sangii.
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The wingspan is 10–16 mm. Edward Meyrick gives this description: Forewings elongate, bronzy-purple, more or less sprinkled with pale shining golden; an indistinct usually small transverse pale golden dorsal spot before tornus, sometimes almost obsolete; cilia bronzy-grey, on dorsal spot ochreous-whitish; 9 absent. Hindwings with hairscales except towards margins posteriorly, bronzy-grey, posteriorly purplish-tinged. Larva whitish; head pale ochreous-brown, mouth darker in blotch in leaves of birch. The moth flies from March to April depending on the location.[1]
The larvae feed on birch.
Subspecies[]
- Eriocrania semipurpurella semipurpurella (North America (from eastern Ontario east to Nova Scotia and south to southern New York), from Great Britain through northern and central Europe to Japan)
- Eriocrania semipurpurella pacifica Clarke, 1978 (southern Alaska and north-western Washington)
References[]
- ^ Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London pdf
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- Eriocrania
- Moths described in 1835
- Moths of Japan
- Moths of Europe
- Taxa named by James Francis Stephens
- Moth stubs