Blastobasis lacticolella
| Blastobasis lacticolella | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Blastobasidae |
| Genus: | Blastobasis |
| Species: | B. lacticolella
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| Blastobasis lacticolella | |
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Blastobasis decolorella auct. | |
Blastobasis lacticolella is a species of moth of the family Blastobasidae.[3] It is endemic to Madeira but has been introduced to western Europe[5][2] and is now reported from the Netherlands,[3] Great Britain,[4][5] Ireland,[2] and Sweden.[5] It is widespread in southern England.[4]
Description
[edit | edit source]The wingspan is 15–23 mm.[5] Adults are on wing from March to October[5] (from May to June and again in autumn in the UK[4]).
Larvae feed in a silken gallery, on a wide variety of unrelated food types, including leaf-litter, vegetation and stored products, such as:[4][6]
- the shoots of tamarisk
- spongy oak galls
- moss
- hawthorn berries
- dead insects
- rosehips
- dried skin of apple.
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