Agonopterix ferocella (Chrétien, 1910)
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Young larvae make a full depth blotch in the apical part of the leaf. Older larvae live free at the underside of the leaf, causing window feeding. While feeding they leave the dense hair cover of the underside intact, and in doing so in fact live in a “pseudomine”, between the upper epidermis and the hair cover.
host plants
Asteraceae, oligophagous
Carlina acanthifolia; Cirsium ferox, vulgare; Echinops.
phenology
Larvae in June, July (Hering, 1957a).
distribution within Europe
Southern France, Italy; Ukraine, South Russia (Fauna Europaea, 2010).
larva
Body without dark length lines; anal plate whitish (Hering, 1957a). Pictures on Rymarczyk, Dutheil & Nel (2013a).
references
Baldizzone & scalercio (2018a), Buschmann & Pastorális (2018a), Lhomme (1934c), Hering (1957a), Rymarczyk, Dutheil & Nel (2013a), Szabóky & Takács (2018a).