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Bedellia somnulentella (Sweet potato leafminer)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Bedellia somnulentella, the sweet potato leaf miner, is a moth in the Bedelliidae family. It has a nearly cosmopolitan distribution and has been recorded from Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, southern Kazakhstan, Kirgizia, Uzbekistan, nearly all of Europe, the Middle East, Africa, India, Japan, North America, Australia, New Zealand and Oceania. The wingspan is 8–10 mm.
View Wikipedia Record: Bedellia somnulentella

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Exmoor Heaths 26455 England, United Kingdom
Fenland 1529 England, United Kingdom
Severn Estuary/ Môr Hafren 182155 England/Wales, United Kingdom

Prey / Diet

Calystegia sepium (devil's guts)[1]
Convolvulus arvensis (perennial morningglory)[1]
Dichondra micrantha (Asian ponysfoot)[2]
Ipomoea batatas ('uala)[1]
Ipomoea purpurea (common morninglory)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 2New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ™ database
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