Lampronia aereipennella

L. aereipennella (Rebel)

Adult Characteristics

Wingspan ?. Head rusty yellow. Forewing purplish brown with a bronzy lustre, and a pale yellow spot near tornus. Hindwings gray.

Comparison with similar species

Distinguishable from triangulifera by dissection of genitalia.

Host, oviposition, and larval feeding habits

Larva is said to feed in the bark of Pyrus communis and related taxa (Svensson 1993). The moth emerges in early summer.

Geographic distribution

Reported from Austria, northern Italy, Bulgaria, and Fennoscandia.

Habitat

Reported from oak forest in Finland.

References

Krogerus, H. 1957. Bemerkungen über einige finnische
          Kleinschmetterlinge. Notul. Entomol. 37:121-126.
Svensson, I. 1993. Fjärilskalender. Self-published, 
          Kristianstad, Sweden

Holotype in ?.

About this page

Olle Pellmyr
E-mail: pellmyr@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu.
Dept of Biology, Vanderbilt University, Box 1812-B Nashville, TN 37235, USA

Title illustration: To be obtained