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).