Chrysoesthia eppelsheimi

Chrysoesthia eppelsheimi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Chrysoesthia
Species:
C. eppelsheimi
Binomial name
Chrysoesthia eppelsheimi
(Staudinger, 1885)
Synonyms
  • Nannodia eppelsheimi Staudinger, 1885
  • Chrysopora eppelsheimi
  • Microsetia eppelsheimi

Chrysoesthia eppelsheimi is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in France, Germany and Switzerland.[1]

The wingspan is 6–8 mm.[2]

The larvae feed on Silene flavescens, Silene nutans and Silene vulgaris. They mine the leaves of their host plant.[3] Larvae can be found from June to September.

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chrysoesthia eppelsheimi.
Wikispecies has information related to Chrysoesthia eppelsheimi.
  1. ^ Fauna Europaea
  2. ^ "Additional data on the distribution and early stages of Chrysoesthia verrucosa (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-09-27. Retrieved 2013-09-26.
  3. ^ "bladmineerders.nl". Archived from the original on 2013-09-28. Retrieved 2013-09-26.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.