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Acrolepia tauricella

Synonyms: Acrolepia karolyii (heterotypic); Acrolepia similella (heterotypic); Acrolepiopsis tauricella (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Acrolepiopsis tauricella is a moth of the Acrolepiidae family. It is found Italy, Switzerland, Hungary and Ukraine. The larvae feed on Tamus communis. They mine the leaves of their host plant. Young larvae make one or two small full depth blotch mines. Most frass is ejected out of the mine though an opening in a corner of the mine. Older larvae live freely under the leaf, but keep using the mine as a shelter during feeding pauses. In this stage they cause window feeding or skeleton feeding. There are several mines in a single leaf. The larvae have a pale yellowish green body and head.
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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