Pseudorchestes persimilis (Reitter, 1911)
mine
The mine begins as a few short corridors in the leaf tip, running from the midrib to the leaf margin. There they coalesce into a blotch. The centre of the mine is somewhat inflated and coloured black by a strong accumulation of frass. Pupation in the mine, in a globular cocoon made out of secretion. The cocoon is situated in the frass-filled centre of the mine.
host plants
Asteraceae, oligophagous
Centaurea nigra; Dittrichia graveolens, viscosa; Pulicaria dysenterica, vulgaris.
phenology
Larvae in April-May (Scherf, 1964a).
BENELUX
Not known from the Benelux countries (Fauna Europaea, 2011).
distribution within Europe
From France to Slovakia; Iberian Peninsula, Italy (Fauna Europaea, 2007).
synonyms
Rhynchaenus persimilis
notes
The French subspecies P. persimilis gallicus (Dieckmann, 1959) lives on Dittrichia graveolens (Hering, 1957a).
references
Benedikt, Borovec, Fremuth ao (2010a), Caillol (1954a), Hering (1936b, 1957a), Morris (1993a), Péricart (1960a), Scherf (1964a), Yunakov, Nazarenko, Filimonov & Volovnik (2018a).