Yponomeuta malinellus Zeller, 1838 Species
Last modified: March 27, 2025, 9:48 a.m.
A fairly common species in many places in Belgium. It became less common in orchards than in the past, most likely due to the extensive use of insecticides.
Details
- Classification
- Family: Yponomeutidae > Subfamily: Yponomeutinae > Genus: Yponomeuta > Species: Yponomeuta malinellus
- Vernacular names
- Appelstippelmot (NL), Apple Ermine (EN), Apfel-Gespinstmotte (DE)
- First mention in Belgium
- De Sélys-Longchamps E. 1844. Énumération des insectes Lépidoptères de la Belgique. — Mémoires de la Société royale des Sciences de Liége 2: 1–35. On page 23 (as Yponomeuta malinella Dup.). view page
- Status
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Native
Distribution
Imago
Specimens of Yponomeuta malinellus, Y. padella and Y. cagnagella can in many cases not be identified beyond doubt either by external characteristics or by genital differences and even less by photos of living moths. Knowledge of the caterpillar host plant is indispensable.
Museum specimens
Specimens in nature
No pictures yet!Genitalia
Caterpillar
Body pale yellow-green with two rows of large black spots, head, prothoracic and anal plate brown-black.
Mine
In spring the young hibernated caterpillars initially make small full depth mines but they soon leave them to live together in a communal web.
See also bladmineerders.be
Bionomics
The larvae live gregariously in a silken web on the foodplant.
Pupation in a dense white silken cocoon, neatly arranged together in the larval web.
The adults are attracted to light.
Flight periods
The adults fly from early June till the end of August.
Observed on
- Host plant (genera):
- Malus
This species feeds monophagously on Malus species.
