Monochroa palustrellus
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Monochroa |
| Species: | M. palustrellus |
| Binomial name | |
| Monochroa palustrellus (Douglas, 1850)[1] | |
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Monochroa palustrellus, the wainscot neb, is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in from western, central and northern Europe to the Ural Mountains and southern Siberia.[2] The habitat consists of waste ground, dry pastures and sand-dunes.[3]
The wingspan is 17–19 mm.[4][5] The forewings pale brown, veins more or less marked with whitish streaks, interneural spaces mixed with blackish; stigmata blackish, whitish-edged, plical and first discal elongate, second discal roundish. Hindwings light grey.[6][7][8][9]
Adults are on wing from late June to August in one generation per year.[10]
The larvae feed on Rumex species, including Rumex crispus, Rumex aquaticus and Rumex hydrolapathum.
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- ↑ Fauna Europaea
- ↑ Junnilainen, J. et al. 2010: The gelechiid fauna of the southern Ural Mountains, part II: list of recorded species with taxonomic notes (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Zootaxa, 2367: 1–68. Preview
- ↑ Hants Moths
- ↑ microlepidoptera.nl Archived 2013-10-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ lepiforum.de
- ↑ Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London pdf
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Keys and description - ↑ Heath, J., ed. 1976 The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland Vol. 4 Part 2
- ↑ Langmaid, J. R., Palmer, S. M. & Young, M. R. [eds]. 2018 A Field Guide to the Smaller Moths of Great Britain and Ireland [3rd ed.]Reading, Berkshire. British Entomological and Natural History Society
- ↑ lepiforum.de includes images This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ↑ Lepidoptera of Belgium Archived 2013-10-05 at the Wayback Machine