- Depressaria depressana
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Depressaria depressana 
Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Lepidoptera Division: Ditrysia Family: Oecophoridae Genus: Depressaria Species: D. depressana Binomial name Depressaria depressana
(Fabricius, 1775)Synonyms - Depressaria depressella (Fabricius, 1798)
- Depressaria bluntii
- Pyralis depressana Fabricius, 1775
- Tinea depressella Fabricius, 1798
- Depressaria rhodochlora Meyrick, 1923
Blunt’s Flat-body or Purple Carrot-seed Moth (Depressaria depressana) is a moth of the Oecophoridae family. It is found in most of Europe. It is also found in the Near East, North Africa and the eastern part of the Palearctic ecozone. In the former USSR, it is distributed in the entire European part except for the Far North. It is also found in the northern Caucasus and Transcaucasia (Georgia and Armenia), in Kazakhstan, Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan), in the south of Siberia (Tomsk, Novosibirsk Regions and Altai Territory) and the Russian Far East (Primorskii Territory).
The wingspan is 14-20 mm. Adults are on wing from March to May. There is one generation in the north. There are two generations in the northern Caucasus and up to three generations in the south of Ukraine.
The larvae feed on Daucus carota, Pimpinella, Pastinaca, Seseli and Peucedanum oreoselinum.
Gallery
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Illustration from John Curtis's British Entomology Volume 6
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Larva
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A carrot inflorescence inhabited by a larva
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