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Depressaria chaerophylli
Depressaria chaerophylli.
Mounted specimen
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Depressariidae
Genus:	Depressaria
Species:	D. chaerophylli
Binomial name
Depressaria chaerophylli Zeller, 1839
Synonyms
Depressaria rarissimella Krulikovsky, 1907

Depressaria chaerophylli is a moth of the family Depressariidae.

Distribution

This species can be found in most of Europe, the Caucasus, Libya and Palestine.

Habitat

These moths mainly inhabit woodland edges, hedgerows and old lanes.

Description

Depressaria chaerophylli has a wingspan of 19–22 mm (0.75–0.87 in). The forewings show a reddish brown ground colour, with scattered dark brown dots along the edges. On the thorax there is a large whitish area.

This species is rather similar to Depressaria depressana and Depressaria pimpinellae.

Biology

Adults are on wing from July to August, and after hibernating, until April in one generation per year.

The larvae are pale yellow, with a pale orange head, with well marked brown lozenges and two brown side lines on the back,

They feed on Chaerophyllum species (hence the species name), including Chaerophyllum temulum, Chaerophyllum bulbosum and Chaerophyllum aureum.

References

1. ^ Fauna Europaea
2. "Depressaria Haworth, 1811" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
3. ^ Hants Moths
4. ^ UKMoths

External links

• Data related to Depressaria chaerophylli at Wikispecies
• Media related to Depressaria chaerophylli at Wikimedia Commons
• lepiforum.de (in German)
• Naturhistoriska risksmuseet (in Swedish)

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• Moths described in 1839
• Depressaria
• Moths of Europe
• Moths of Asia
• Moths of Africa
• Taxa named by Philipp Christoph Zeller
• Depressaria stubs