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Callisto insperatella

Synonyms: Ornix insperatella (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Callisto insperatella is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is found from Fennoscandia to Switzerland, Austria, and Ukraine. The larvae feed on Prunus cerasus and Prunus padus. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine starts as an epidermal gallery with a central frass line. The gallery widens into a blotch and the larva starts consuming the parenchyma. In the end, the mine has the form of a lower-surface tentiform mine. It is strongly contracted, but without folds. The larva vacates the mine by an opening in the lower epidermis and lives freely in a leaf margin that has been folded downwards. Within this fold, the larva starts feeding in the apical section, working downwards. The frass is deposited in the oldest part of the fold. During feeding pauses, the larva rests still
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Prey / Diet

Prunus padus (Bird Cherry)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Phenacoccus trichonotus1
Phyllonorycter sorbi1
Saperda scalaris1

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
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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