Mompha ochraceella

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Mompha ochraceella
Illustration from John Curtis's British Entomology Volume 6
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Momphidae
Genus:	Mompha
Species:	M. ochraceella
Binomial name
Mompha ochraceella (Curtis, 1839) [1]
Synonyms
Laverna ochraceella Curtis, 1839

Mompha ochraceella is a moth of the family Momphidae found in Africa, Asia and Europe.

Description[]

The wingspan is 14–16 mm. The head is whitish-yellow ochreous. Forewings are yellow, suffusedly and irregularly irrorated with pale ferruginous; three darker scale-tufts above dorsum. Hindwings are whitish-yellowish. The larva is pale yellowish head pale brown.^[2]

Adults are on wing from May to August.^[3]

The larvae feed on willowherbs (Epilobium species), including great willowherb (Epilobium hirsutum). They mine the stems and later the leaves of their host plant. The leaf mine consists of a lower-surface blotch in a low growing leaf. The blotch is centered over the midrib and contains little or no frass. Pupation is within the mine.^[4]

Distribution[]

It is found in most of Europe, ranging (in the south) to Morocco and Asia Minor. In the east, the range extends to the Caucasus and Iran.

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