Ornixola caudulatella

Ornixola caudulatella
Ornixola caudulatella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Ornixola
Species: O. caudulatella
Binomial name
Ornixola caudulatella
(Zeller, 1839)[1]
Synonyms
  • Ornix caudulatella Zeller, 1839
  • Ornixola eisendlei (Hauder, 1910)
  • Ornixola nigroscriptella (Duponchel, 1843)

Ornixola caudulatella is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Romania, Greece, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Russia and Ukraine.[2]

There are two generations per year with adults on wing from May to June and again from July to August in Hungary.[3]

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)
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