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Orthotelia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Glyphipterigidae
Subfamily:	Orthoteliinae Herrich-Schaffer, 1857
Genus:	Orthotelia Stephens, 1829
Species:	O. sparganella
Binomial name
Orthotelia sparganella (Thunberg, 1788)
Synonyms
Genus: Caulobius Duponchel, 1838 Species: Tinea sparganella Thunberg, 1788 Depressaria venosa Haworth, 1811 Tinea tostella Hübner,

Orthotelia is a genus of moths in the subfamily Orthoteliinae. Orthotelia sparganella, a moth of the family Glyphipterigidae, is its only species.

O. sparganella is found in most of Europe, except Spain, most of the Balkan Peninsula and Ukraine.

The wingspan is 20–28 millimetres (0.79–1.10 in). The forewings are whitish ochreous to reddish-ochreous, usually more or less suffused with dark purplish-fuscous, especially on a longitudinal discal streak dilated posteriorly, veins often marked with pale streaks ; often several dark fuscous dots on fold, and a suffused dark spot in disc at 2/3. Hindwings ochreous-whitish to whitish-grey, lower half of termen suffused with grey. The larva is grey or whitish ; head reddish-brown ; 13 much flattened.

Adults are on wing in July and August.

The larvae can be found from May to June. They feed on Iris pseudacorus, Glyceria maxima, Scirpus lacustris, Sparganium and Typha, mining the young leaves of the host plant.

References

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. bladmineerders.nl

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