Dichomeris marginella (Fabricius, 1781)
juniper webber
Juniperus, USA © Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station Archive, Bugwood.com
mine
The young larvae mine one or two needles. Later they live free in a communal web in which also much frass and remnants of needles are stuck.
host plants
Cupressaceae, monophagous
phenology
Mining larvae in mid-summer; free living larvae till early summer of the following year (Freeman, 1967a).
BENELUX
BE recorded (Phegea, 2010).
NE recorded (Kuchlein & de Vos, 1999a; Microlepidoptera.nl, 2010).
LUX recorded (Fauna Europaea, 2010).
distribution within Europe
Almost all Europe (Fauna Europaea, 2010).
larva
Head dark brown. Prothoracic plate light brown, rear margin dark brown. Body ana anal plate pinkish white with dark red dorsal and laterodorsal lines, Pinacula black. Thoracic feet blackish.
pupa
See Patočka & Turčáni (2005a).
references
Bland, Corley, Emmet ao (2002a), Corley, Rosete, Gonçalves ao (2018a), Freeman (1967a), Patočka & Turčáni (2005a), Requena (2009a), Robbins (1991a).