Trifurcula thymi

Trifurcula thymi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nepticulidae
Genus:	Trifurcula
Species:	T. thymi
Binomial name
	Trifurcula thymi; (Szocs, 1965)
Synonyms
	Nepticula thymi Szocs, 1965;

Trifurcula thymi is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found from Germany and Poland to the Alps and Hungary, as well as in France and the Iberian Peninsula.

The larvae feed on , Satureja montana, Thymus camphoratus, , Thymus mastichina, Thymus pannonicus, Thymus pulegioides and Thymus vulgaris. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine consists of a narrow corridor that winds through the leaf, then moves to the leaf opposite through the bark of the stem. This second leaf is completely mined out in two or three loops. The frass is deposited in a relatively broad central line.

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