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Ornixola caudulatella

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Species of moth

Ornixola caudulatella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Ornixola
Species: O. caudulatella
Binomial name
Ornixola caudulatella
(Zeller, 1839)
Synonyms
  • Ornix caudulatella Zeller, 1839
  • Ornixola eisendlei (Hauder, 1910)
  • Ornixola nigroscriptella (Duponchel, 1843)

Ornixola caudulatella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Romania, Greece, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Russia and Ukraine.

There are two generations per year with adults on wing from May to June and again from July to August in Hungary.

The larvae feed on Salix species, including Salix caprea and Salix acutifolia.

References

  1. Fauna Europaea
  2. Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
  3. Microlepidoptera Pannoniae meridionalis, VIII. Data to knowledge of micro-moths from Dombóvár (SW Hungary) (Lepidoptera)
Taxon identifiers
Ornixola caudulatella


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