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Chrysoesthia sexguttella

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Wikipedia Abstract

Chrysoesthia sexguttella is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It is found in all of Europe, east to southern Siberia, as well as the north-eastern parts of North America, where it might be an introduced species. The wingspan is 8–10 mm. Adults are on wing from May to June and again from August to September. There are two generations per year.
View Wikipedia Record: Chrysoesthia sexguttella

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Dee Estuary/ Aber Dyfrdwy 39057 England/Wales, United Kingdom
Fenland 1529 England, United Kingdom
Glannau Môn: Cors heli / Anglesey Coast: Saltmarsh 2614 Wales, United Kingdom  
Humber Estuary 90582 England, United Kingdom
Luce Bay and Sands 120487 Scotland, United Kingdom

Prey / Diet

Atriplex calotheca (Fat hen)[1]
Chenopodium album (lambsquarters goosefoot)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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