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Mompha terminella
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Momphidae
Genus:	Mompha
Species:	M. terminella
Binomial name
Mompha terminella (Humphreys & Westwood, 1845)
Synonyms
List Glyphipteryx terminella Humphreys & Westwood, 1845 Psacaphora terminella Psacaphora chrysargyrella Herrich-Schaffer, 1854 Mompha engelella Busck, 1906 Elachista patriciella Stainton, 1849

Mompha terminella is a moth in the family Momphidae found in Europe and North America.

Description

The wingspan is 8–10 mm.The head is dark leaden-metallic, the face silvery. Antennae with apex white. The forewings are orange, sometimes suffused with purple or brown; a black blotch on base of costa, margined with silver-metallic spots; stigmata and a spot above tornus silver-metallic, black-edged, first discal whiter ; apex black, preceded on costa by a white spot and on termen by a silver-metallic mark. The hindwings are dark fuscous.The larva is whitish ; dorsal line green ; head yellowish brown: in irregular (at first spiral) blotches in leaves of Circaea lutetiana; The imago is seldom observed at large. Note- forewing ground colour is dark orange . There is lead-coloured spot extending from the base of the wing to 1/3 of the length of the forewing, at the base of the wing it extends from the costal vein to the inner edge of the wing. Adults are on wing from July to August in one generation per year.

The larvae feed on small enchanter's nightshade (Circaea alpina) and enchanter's nightshade (Circaea lutetiana) mining the leaves of their host plant. Larvae can be found from mid-August to mid-September. They are whitish with a light brown head.

Distribution

It is found from Fennoscandia to the Iberian Peninsula and from Ireland to Romania. It is also found in North America.

References

1. ^ "Mompha (Psacaphora) terminella (Humphreys & Westwood, 1845)". Fauna Europaea. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
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. Koster, J.C. & Sinev, S.Yu., 2003. Momphidae, Batrachedridae, Stathmopodidae, Agonoxe nidae, Cosmopterigidae, Chrysopeleiidae. - In P. Huemer, 0. Karsholt and L. Lyneborg (eds): Microlepidoptera of Europe 5: 1-387. ISBN 87-88757-66-8 ISSN 1395-9506
4. microlepidoptera.nl Archived 2011-02-12 at the Wayback Machine
5. Kimber, Ian. "40.014 BF881 Mompha terminella (Humphreys & Westwood, 1845)". UKmoths. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
6. Ellis, W N. "Mompha terminella (Humphreys & Westwood, 1845) enchanters mompha". Plant Parasites of Europe. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
7. "421855.00 – 1456 – Mompha terminella – (Westwood, 1851)". Moth Photographers Group. Retrieved 7 May 2020.

External links

• Bug Guide
• British leafminers

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• Momphidae
• Leaf miners
• Moths described in 1845
• Moths of Europe
• Moths of North America
• Taxa named by Henry Noel Humphreys
• Taxa named by John O. Westwood
• Gelechioidea stubs