Carpatolechia aenigma
Carpatolechia aenigma is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Greece, Ukraine and Russia[1] (the Ural Mountains and Lower Volga).[2]
| Carpatolechia aenigma | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Carpatolechia |
| Species: | C. aenigma |
| Binomial name | |
| Carpatolechia aenigma (Sattler, 1983) | |
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The wingspan is 10–13 mm. Adults have been recorded on wing from May to July.
The larvae have been recorded feeding on Tilia cordata and Quercus robur.[3]
References
- Fauna Europaea
- 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
- microlepidoptera.nl Archived March 2, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
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