Caloptilia falconipennella

Caloptilia falconipennella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gracillariidae
Genus:	Caloptilia
Species:	C. falconipennella
Binomial name
	Caloptilia falconipennella; (Hübner, 1813)[1]
Synonyms
	Tinea falconipennella Hübner, 1813; Caloptilia oneratella (Zeller, 1847);

Caloptilia falconipennella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from all of Europe, except the Balkan Peninsula.

The wingspan is about 13 millimetres (0.51 in). The forewings are dark reddish-fuscous irrorated with whitish ; margins and fold dotted with black and an indistinct whitish triangular costal blotch before middle. Hindwings are dark grey.[2]

Adults are on wing in September and overwinter, reappearing in the spring.[3]

The larvae feed on alder (Alnus glutinosa). They mine the leaves of their host plant which consists of a small lower-surface blotch near the leaf margin. The mine is in fact a tentiform mine, but so little silk is produced that the blotch hardly contracts at all. The mine is preceded by a quite short corridor, that is overrun by the later blotch. Older larvae leave the mine and start feeding under a flap of the leaf margin that is folded down and attached to the blade underside with silk. Two or three such folds are made on the same or another leaf.[4]

References

"Caloptilia falconipennella (Hübner, 1813)". Fauna Europaea. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
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
Kimber, Ian. "15.011 BF289 Caloptilia falconipennella (Hübner, [1813])". UKmoths. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
Ellis, W N. "Caloptilia falconipennella (Hübner, 1813) scarce alder slender". Plant Parasites of Europe. Retrieved 8 August 2019.

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[1] "Caloptilia falconipennella (Hübner, 1813)". Fauna Europaea. Retrieved 8 August 2019.

[2] 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

[3] Kimber, Ian. "15.011 BF289 Caloptilia falconipennella (Hübner, [1813])". UKmoths. Retrieved 8 August 2019.

[4] Ellis, W N. "Caloptilia falconipennella (Hübner, 1813) scarce alder slender". Plant Parasites of Europe. Retrieved 8 August 2019.