Trifurcula immundella (Zeller, 1839) Species
Last modified: Feb. 5, 2026, 3:26 p.m.
A species with few records in the past, but since the recent quest for leafmining species it seems to be fairly common.
Details
- Classification
- Family: Nepticulidae > Genus: Trifurcula > Species: Trifurcula immundella
- Vernacular names
- Gewone drievorkmot (NL), Broom Pigmy (EN)
- First mention in Belgium
- Fologne E., Mors L. & Weyers J. 1861. Rapport sur les excursions entomologiques faites dans la Campine anversoise. — Annales de la Société entomologique belge 5: 47–51. On page 25 (as Nepticula immundella. Staint.). view page
- Status
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Native
Distribution
Imago
Very small, pale looking Nepticulid, with grey-white ground colour with dark-tipped scales. Yellow-orange head and white eyecaps.
Museum specimens
Specimens in nature
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Caterpillar
The larva is yellowish.
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Mine
Bionomics
The larva makes a long brown gallery beneath the bark on a young twig of the food plant, generally close to the tip.
Pupation in a dark ochreous brown cocoon.
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Flight periods
The adults fly in one or perhaps two generations a year. Moths have been seen from June till early September.
Observed on
- Host plant (genera):
- Cytisus
The larva lives on a young twig of Cytisus scoparius.
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