Digitivalva granitella (Treitschke, 1833) Species
Last modified: Sept. 6, 2023, 6:42 p.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 becoming a blotch with little of no frass visible. The larva can leave its mine and start another one and that explanes why there are mines without 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 following spring.
