Digitivalva granitella (Treitschke, 1833) Species
Last modified: Nov. 28, 2024, 11:41 a.m.
A very rare species in Belgium.
Details
- Classification
- Family: Glyphipterigidae > Subfamily: Acrolepiinae > Genus: Digitivalva > Subgenus: Inuliphila > Species: Digitivalva granitella
- Vernacular names
- Valse donderkruidmineermot (NL)
- First mention in Belgium
- De Fré Ch. 1858. Catalogue des Microlépidoptères de la Belgique. — Annales de la Société entomologique belge 2: 45–162. On page 138.
- Status
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Native
Distribution
Imago
Museum specimens
Specimens in nature
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Bionomics
The monophagous larva lives in a mine on Inula conyzae. The first mine starts with a long and narrow corridor and later becomes a blotch with little or no frass visible. The larva can leave its mine and start another one and that explains why there are mines without a corridor.
Pupation outside the mine in a spindle-shaped reticulate cocoon, often at the underside of a leaf close to the midrib.
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Flight periods
The adults fly in two generations a year in June and July and again during August and September and hibernate over winter, reappearing the following spring.
