Bupleurum rigidum, Spain; from Hering (1936b)

mine

Relatively broad, brownish, full depth corridor of about 5 mm, without any frass. The larva emerges a short distance from the mine and causes window feeding, in which only the lower epidermis remains intact. Between the mine and the window lies a broad trace of frass, that keeps in place because of threads of silk. Mostly several mines in a leaf. Later the larva lives free under a spinning, even later in a folded leaf margin, fastened with silk.

hostplants

Apiaceae, monophagous

Bupleurum rigidum.

phenology

Larvae collected in end June.

distribution within Europe

Spouthern France, Iberia (Fauna Europaea, 2009).

synonyms

Agonopterix, Depressaria rebeli Hering, 1936.

references

Hering (1936b, 1957a).

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