Urodeta hibernella (Staudinger, 1859)
Lepidoptera, Momphidae
Helianthemum syriacum, Spain, Almería, Enix © Ginny & Peter Clarke
upperside view
larva
pupa
mine
Elongated, slightly puckered, full depth blotch, without an initial corridor; all frass concentrated in the lowest part of the mine. Larvae leave their mine and restart elsewehere. Pupation outside the mine.
hostplants
Cistaceae, oligophagous
Cistus monspeliensis; Helianthemum syriacum.
phenology
Larvae from March on (Hering, 1957a).
BENELUX
Not known from the Benelux countries (Fauna Europaea, 2009).
distribution within Europe
France, Corsica, Iberian Peninsula (Fauna Europaea, 2009).
synonyms
Urodeta cisticolella Stainton, 1869.
references
Hering (1957a), Koster & Sinev (2003a).
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