Sorhagenia rhamniella

Sorhagenia rhamniella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Cosmopterigidae
Genus:	Sorhagenia
Species:	S. rhamniella
Binomial name
	Sorhagenia rhamniella; (Zeller, 1839)
Synonyms
	Elachista rhamniella Zeller, 1839; Anacampsis asperipunctella Bruand, 1851;

Sorhagenia rhamniella is a moth in the family Cosmopterigidae. It is found in most of Europe, except the Balkan Peninsula.[1]

A shoot of buckthorn drooping from larval feeding

Larva

The wingspan is about 9–10 mm. The head is fuscous, whitish sprinkled. Forewings are fuscous, sometimes somewhat ochreous mixed ; large blackish scale-tufts on fold at 1/4, on dorsum before tornus, below middle of costa, and in disc at 3/4 ; some raised black strigulae towards apex. Hindwings are grey.The larva is greenish ; head and plate of 2 black. [2]

Adults are on wing from July to August.

The larvae feed on Rhamnus frangula and Rhamnus cathartica. They feed from within a slight spinning either in the flowers or the terminal shoots.[3] Sometimes, also young leaves are eaten. Pupation takes place in a pale yellow cocoon near the ground, sometimes between leaves. Larvae can be found from the beginning of May to June.[4]

References

Fauna Europaea
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
UKmoths
microlepidoptera.nl Archived 2011-05-01 at the Wayback Machine

External links

lepiforum.de

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[1] Fauna Europaea

[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] UKmoths

[4] rolepidoptera.nl Archived 2011-05-01 at the Wayback Machine