Pancalia nodosella

Pancalia nodosella is a moth in the family Cosmopterigidae. It is found in Portugal, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Italy, Slovenia, Slovakia, most of the Balkan Peninsula, Ukraine, Latvia and Russia.[1] In the east, the range extends through the Caucasus and Central Asia to Kyrgyzstan.

Pancalia nodosella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Cosmopterigidae
Genus: Pancalia
Species:
P. nodosella
Binomial name
Pancalia nodosella
(Bruand, 1851)
Synonyms
  • Oecophora nodosella Bruand, 1851
  • Oecophora nodosella Mann, 1854

The wingspan is 12–16 mm. Adults are on wing in May.[2]

The larvae feed on Viola curtisii. They initially mine the leaf stem of their host plant, but also make irregular blotch mines in the leaves. Older larvae may resort to window feeding on the outside of the leaves, but eventually bore the subterranean part of the stem.[3] Larvae can be found from June to July.

References
  1. Fauna Europaea
  2. microlepidoptera.nl Archived 2011-02-12 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "bladmineerders.nl". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2011-08-30.



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