Sphaeroderma rubidum (Graells, 1858)
on Asteraceae
Centaurea jacea, GD Luxembourg, Kautenbach, Routseit.
mine
Long corridor mine, without obvious relation with the leaf margin, with little frass and irregularly eaten out sides. The first part of the mine is full depth and makes a few close loops; the second part is upper-surface and considerably wider. Primary feedings lines often obvious. The larva is so broad that is completely fills the mine.
host plants
Asteraceae, narrowly oligophagous
Arctium; Carduus pycnocephalus; Centaurea debeauxii, jacea, procurrens; Cynara cardunculus, scolymus; Echinops; Galactites tomentosus; Onopordum acanthium; Serratula; Silybum marianum.
phenology
Hibernation as larva.
BENELUX
BE observed (Fauna Europaea, 2007).
NE observed ((Beenen & Winkelman, 1993a; Fauna Europaea, 2007).
LUX observed (Fauna Europaea, 2007).
distribution within Europe
West, Central and South Europe, also the British Isles (Cox, 2007a; Fauna Europaea, 2007).
larva
notes
A pest in the cultivation of cardoon (Iglesias ao).
references
Bahillo de la Puebla & Román (2009a), Baselga & Novoa (2002b), Baviera & Biondi (2015a), Beenen & Winkelman (1993a), Biondi (1994b), Bukejs (2009a), Cox (2007a), Farina (2015a), Furth (1997a), Haase (1942a), Hering (1930a, 1957a), Huber (1969a), Iglesias, Varés & Sinobas (1999a), Lorenz (1997a), Ouda, Čížek & Boža (2013a), Petitpierre, Sacarés & Jurado-Rivera (2017a), Rheinheimer & Hassler (2018a), Robbins (1991a), Rozner & Rozner (2014a), Skala (1936a), Skala & Zavřel (1945a), Sønderup (1949a), Steinhausen (1994a), Troukens (2012a), Ugarte San Vicente (2005a), Vela, Bastazo & Fritzlar (2017a), Warchalowski (2003a), van Wielink (2020a).