Agonopterix kuznetzovi (Lvovsky, 1983)

cornish flat-body

mine

Short, gradually widening, brown, corridor, 9-13 mm long and 0.5-2 mm wide. At he start of the mine a small lower-surface hole, lined with silk, through which frass is ejected. The older larva lives free in a spinning under the leaf or, even later, in a leaf that is spun upwards into a pod.

host plants

Asteraceae, monophagous

Serratula tinctoria.

phenology

Larvae late May, June (Harper ao, 2002a).

BENELUX

Not known from the Benelux countries (Fauna Europaea, 2009).

distribution within Europe

Britain, Central Russia (Fauna Europaea, 2009).

larva

The young larva has a black head and prothoracic plate, a pale green with concolorous anal plate and darker dorsal line. See Harper ao (2002a) for a description of the free-living larva.

references

Buchner & Šumpich (2018a), Hannemann (1995a), Harper, Langmaid & Emmet (2002a), Langmaid & Pelham-Clinton (1984a), Vives Moreno & Gastón (2017a).