Ptocheuusa paupella

Ptocheuusa paupella, the light fleabane neb, is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found from central and southern Europe to the Ural Mountains. It is also found in Turkey and India.[2]

Ptocheuusa paupella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Gelechiidae
Genus:
Ptocheuusa
Species:
P. paupella
Binomial name
Ptocheuusa paupella
(Zeller, 1847)[1]
Synonyms
  • Gelechia paupella Zeller, 1847
  • Aphelosetia inulella Curtis, 1850
  • Apatetris leucoglypta Meyrick, 1918

The wingspan is 10–12 mm. The ground colour is buff, streaked with whitish and with darker speckling.The forewings are light ochreous-yellow,with some black scales mostly arranged in longitudinal rows ; margins, a median longitudinal streak from base to middle, an indistinct inwardly oblique slender fascia before middle and another at 3/4, and sometimes two or three faint longitudinal lines in disc posteriorly white. Hindwings are pale grey.The larva is pale yellowish ; head and two spots on 2 dark fuscous, head pale brown.[3]

Adults are on wing in June and again from August to September.[4]

The larvae feed in the seedheads of Pulicaria dysenterica, Centaurea nigra and Inula crithmoides.[5]

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. 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
  4. UKmoths
  5. microlepidoptera.nl Archived 2013-10-05 at the Wayback Machine



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