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Apodia bifractella
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Apodia
Species:	A. bifractella
Binomial name
Apodia bifractella (Duponchel, 1843)
Synonyms
Lita bifractella Duponchel, 1843

Apodia bifractella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in most of Europe, as well as Turkey, the Caucasus and North Africa.

The wingspan is 9–12 mm. The head and palpi are orange, the face sometimes whitish. The forewings are dark fuscous, sprinkled with grey-whitish, dorsally more or less mixed with ferruginous orange usually with a more distinct small tornal orange mark and an ill-defined ochreous-whitish or pale orange costal spot beyond it, sometimes finely connected . Veins 7 and 8 arise out of vein 6. The hindwings are grey. Larva almost apodal, stout, whitish.

Adults are on wing from July to August.

The larvae feed on Pulicaria dysenterica, Inula conyzae and Aster tripolium.

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. Heath, J.,ed. 1976 The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland Vol. 4 Part 2
5. Langmaid, J. R., Palmer, S. M. & Young, M. R. . 2018 A Field Guide to the Smaller Moths of Great Britain and Ireland Reading, Berkshire. British Entomological and Natural History Society
6. lepiforum.de includes images This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
7. UKmoths

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