Seq # 500520060

Eudonia truncicolella (Stainton, 1849) Species

Last modified: March 11, 2023, 5:55 p.m.


A fairly common species throughout Belgium.


Details

Classification
Family: Crambidae > Subfamily: Scopariinae > Genus: Eudonia > Species: Eudonia truncicolella
Vernacular names
Nazomergranietmot (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 102.
Status

Native


Distribution


Imago

Museum specimens

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Specimens in nature


Flight periods

The adults fly from the end of July till the end of August. They fly at dusk and come to light.


Observed on

Substrates:
Mosses

The larva lives in a silken gallery in several species of mosses growing on the ground. It hibernates.

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