Plant Parasites of Europe

leafminers, galls and fungi

Acleris logiana

Acleris logiana (Clerck, 1759)

grey birch button, black headed birch leaffolder

on Betula

parasite

Larva among spun leaves.

host plants

Betulaceae, monophagous

Betula dahurica, pendula, platyphylla.

phenology

Univoltine; hibernation as imagp

distribution within Europe

(PESI, 2019).

larva

Body transparent greenish white; head dar brown; prothoracic plate greenish white with large triangular dark brown marking; pinacula inconspicuous. See Swatschek.

pupa

See Patočka & Turčáni.

synonyms

Acalla niveana (Fabricius, 1787).

references

Bradley, Tremewan & Smith (1973a), Diakonoff & Dorst (1982a, Disqué (1905a), Hancock & Bland (2015a), Lepiforum (2019), Patočka & Turčáni (2005a), Pröse (1993a), Schütze (1931a), Sinev & Shapoval (2015a), Swatschek (1958a).

Last modified 25.iii.2021