{"id":30433,"date":"2017-02-14T13:17:02","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T13:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bladmineerders.nl\/animalia\/arthropoda\/insecta\/lepidoptera\/yponomeutidae\/prays\/prays-ruficeps\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T07:56:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:56:28","slug":"prays-ruficeps","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bladmineerders.nl\/en\/parasites\/animalia\/arthropoda\/insecta\/lepidoptera\/ditrysia\/yponomeutoidea\/praydidae\/prays\/prays-ruficeps\/","title":{"rendered":"Prays ruficeps"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><em>Prays ruficeps<\/em> (Heinemann, 1854)<\/h1>\n<p><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"vernacular-name\">dark ash-bud moth<\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"head-mine\">mine<\/h3>\n<p>Oviposition on the fruit stalk. From there a short gallery runs up. It soon sinks in; the larva eventually feeds on the seed<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"head-hostplant\">host plants<\/h3>\n<p>Oleaceae, monophagous<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"latinnames\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bladmineerders.nl\/fraxinus\">Fraxinus<\/a> excelsior.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"head-phenology\">phenology<\/h3>\n<p>Larvae in July &#8211; August; possibly a later generation as well, of which the larvae live in the buds (Hering, 1957a).<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"head-distribution\">BENELUX<\/h3>\n<p>BE not recorded (Fauna Europaea, 2010).<\/p>\n<p>NE recorded (Kuchlein &#038; de Vos, 1999a; Microlepidoptera.nl, 2010).<\/p>\n<p>LUX not recorded (Fauna Europaea, 2010).<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"head-distribution\">distribution within Europe<\/h3>\n<p>From Fennoscandia to the Pyrenees, Alps, and Hungary, and from Britain to the Ukraine (Fauna Europaea, 2010).<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"head-pupa\">pupa<\/h3>\n<p>Described by Pato\u010dka (1999b), Pato\u010dka &#038; Tur\u010d\u00e1ni (2005a).<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"head-synonym\">synonyms<\/h3>\n<p><em>Prays rustica, rusticus<\/em> Haworth, 1828.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"head-references\">references<\/h3>\n<p class=\"references\">Baldizzone (2004a), Bengtsson &#038; Johansson (2011a), Hering (1957a), Huemer (2012a), Huisman &#038; Koster (1995a), Huisman, Koster, van Nieukerken &#038; Ulenberg (2001a, 2004a), Kuchlein &#038; Donner (1993a), Kuchlein &#038; de Vos (1999a), Leutsch (2011a), Pato\u010dka (1999b), Pato\u010dka &#038; Tur\u010d\u00e1ni (2005a), De Prins &#038; Steeman (2011a), Revilla &#038; Gast\u00f3n (2019a), Sch\u00fctze (1899a), Skala (1951b), Skala &#038; Zav\u0159el (1945a), \u0160umpich (2017a), W\u00f6rz (1957a).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prays ruficeps (Heinemann, 1854) dark ash-bud moth mine Oviposition on the fruit stalk. From there a short gallery runs up. It soon sinks in; the larva eventually feeds on the seed host plants Oleaceae, monophagous Fraxinus excelsior. phenology Larvae in July &#8211; August; possibly a later generation as well, of which the larvae live in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":30427,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"parasite-species.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30433","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-parasite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bladmineerders.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bladmineerders.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bladmineerders.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bladmineerders.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bladmineerders.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30433"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bladmineerders.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":990231,"href":"https:\/\/bladmineerders.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30433\/revisions\/990231"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bladmineerders.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bladmineerders.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bladmineerders.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bladmineerders.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}