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Depressaria depressana (Purple Carrot-seed Moth)

Synonyms: Haemilis depressella; Pyralis depressana (homotypic); Tinea depressana; Tinea depressella (heterotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Blunt’s flat-body or purple carrot-seed moth (Depressaria depressana) is a moth of the Depressariidae family. It is found in most of Europe. It is also found in the Near East, North Africa, the eastern part of the Palearctic ecozone and since 2009 in North America. In the former USSR, it is distributed in the entire European part except for the Far North. It is also found in the northern Caucasus and Transcaucasia (Georgia and Armenia), in Kazakhstan, Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan), in the south of Siberia (Tomsk, Novosibirsk regions and Altai Territory) and the Russian Far East (Primorskii Territory). It is an introduced species in North America, where it has been reported from Québec and Ontario.
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Prey / Diet

Daucus carota (bird's nest)[1]
Pimpinella saxifraga (solidstem burnet saxifrage)[1]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0