Teleiodes luculella

Teleiodes luculella, the crescent groundling, is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found from Europe to the southern Ural and Transcaucasia.[2] The habitat consists of woodlands, including oak woodlands.[3]

Teleiodes luculella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Teleiodes
Species:
T. luculella
Binomial name
Teleiodes luculella
(Hübner, 1813)[1]
Synonyms
  • Tinea luculella Hübner, 1813
  • Recurvaria subrosea Haworth, 1828

The wingspan is 9–13 mm.[4] The head is white, mixed with black. Terminal joint of palpi shorter than second. Forewings are dark grey, mixed with black ; some indistinct whitish spots towards base ; a semicircular white costal blotch before middle, enclosing a blackish costal mark, and posteriorly suffused with yellow-ochreous in disc ; a small whitish tornal spot, and a larger one on costa opposite. Hindwings under 1,grey.The larva is whitish green ; dots black ; head yellow-brown ; plate of 2 yellow brown, black-marked[5]

Adults are on wing from May to June.

The larvae feed on Quercus, Castanea sativa, Betula, Acer and Salix eleagnos. They feed between spun leaves of their host plant. Larvae can be found in September. The species overwinters in the pupal stage within a cocoon on the ground.[6]

References
  1. Fauna Europaea
  2. Junnilainen, J. et al. 2010: The gelechiid fauna of the southern Ural Mountains, part II: list of recorded species with taxonomic notes (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Zootaxa, 2367: 1–68. Preview
  3. Hants Moths
  4. microlepidoptera.nl Archived 2013-10-04 at the Wayback Machine
  5. Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London pdf This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Keys and description
  6. UKmoths


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