Paraswammerdamia albicapitella

Paraswammerdamia albicapitella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Yponomeutidae
Genus:	Paraswammerdamia
Species:	P. albicapitella
Binomial name
	Paraswammerdamia albicapitella; (Scharfenberg, 1805)
Synonyms
	Phalaena albicapitella Scharfenberg, 1805; Tinea spiniella Hübner, [1809]; Tinea caesiella Hübner, [1813] (not Hübner, 1796);

Paraswammerdamia albicapitella is a moth of the family Yponomeutidae. It is found in most of Europe, except the western part of the Balkan Peninsula, Ukraine, Lithuania and Latvia.^[1] It was recently reported from Canada (British Columbia).^[2]

The wingspan is 10–13 mm. Adults are greyish with a white head and thorax. They are on wing in July.^[3]

The larvae feed on Prunus spinosa. They initially mine the leaves of their host plant. After overwintering in a silken enclosure, they feed freely on the leaves from within a silk web. Mining larvae can be found in September. The larvae have a reddish-brown body and light brown head.^[4]

References[]

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[1] Fauna Europaea

[2] Shared but overlooked: 30 species of Holarctic Microlepidoptera revealed by DNA barcodes and morphology

[3] UKmoths

[4] rders.nl

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