| Aristotelia ericinella | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Aristotelia |
| Species: | A. ericinella |
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| Aristotelia ericinella (Zeller, 1839) | |
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Aristotelia ericinella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in most of Europe, except most of the Balkan Peninsula.
The wingspan is 9–13 mm. The forewings are dark fuscous with a dorsal streak to beyond middle, and sometimes a posterior spot in disc both reddish ochreous. There is a spot on dorsum at base, an oblique fascia at 1/4 , a costally furcate fascia in middle, a tornal spot, a costal spot beyond it, and some terminal dots all rosy silvery; stigmata sometimes obscurely blackish. The hindwings are grey. The larva is ochreous-brown, rosy-tinged ; subdorsal line dark brown, partly edged with pale yellowish ; spiracular pale yellowish, slender ; head and front of 2 pale brown.
Adults are on wing from July to August.
The larvae feed on Calluna species and Empetrum nigrum. Larvae can be found from September to June.
References
- Fauna Europaea
- microlepidoptera.nl Archived May 1, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- 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
- Heath, J.,ed. 1976 The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland Vol. 4 Part 2
- 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
- lepiforum.de includes images This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- UKmoths
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| Aristotelia ericinella |
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