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Caryocolum junctella

Synonyms: Caryocolum aganocarpa; Gelechia junctella (homotypic); Gelechia unctella; Lita junctella; Phthorimaea aganocarpa

Wikipedia Abstract

Caryocolum junctella is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It is found from most of Europe (except Ireland, the Netherlands, Croatia, Portugal and possibly Spain and parts of the Balkan Peninsula) east to China and Japan. The length of the forewings is 4.5–5 mm. The forewings are whitish mottled with greyish brown, particularly at the base, across the middle of the wing and along the dorsum. Adults have been recorded on wing from April to August. They overwinter.
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Kenfig/ Cynffig 2945 Wales, United Kingdom

Prey / Diet

Cerastium arvense (field chickweed)[1]
Cerastium glomeratum (sticky chickweed)[2]
Polygonum aviculare aviculare (prostrate knotweed)[2]
Stellaria graminea (little starwort)[2]
Stellaria media (chickweed)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 2Biological 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