Bucculatrix noltei Petry, 1912

Artemisia vulgaris, Nieuwendam

primary mine and secondary mines

primary mine

secondary mines
larva in a secondary mine

Artemisia vulgaris, Belgium, prov. Namur, Vierves-sur-Viroin © Stéphane Claerebout: the ribbed cocoon and the exuvium
mine
The larva begins by making a very thin and slender corridor, often along the leaf margin, with a relatively broad, continuous, reddish brown frass line. After a while this mine is left and the larva starts making fleck mines. The vacated corridor ends in a relatively long larval chamber, free of frass. The fleck mines are rather small, made from below, neatly circular, white at first, later turning brown. Often tens of are made in a single leaf, lending infested leaves an unmistakable appearance.
host plants
Asteraceae, narrowly monophagous
Artemisia vulgaris.
phenology
Larvae from June to October (Hering, 1957a); bivoltine, hibernation as pupa (Patočka, 1996a).
BENELUX
BE recorded (Phegea, 2009).
NE recorded (Kuchlein & de Vos, 1999a; Microlepidoptera.nl, 2009).
LUX not recorded (Fauna Europaea, 2009).
distribution within Europe
From Finland to Belgium, Italy, and the Crimea, and from the Netherlands to Central Russia (Fauna Europaea, 2009).
larve
pupa
Described by Patočka (1996a), Patočka & Turčáni (2005a).
synonyms
Bucculatrix petryi Martini?
notes
Known in the Netherlands only from around 1980, now quite common there.
references
Ahr (1966a), Beiger (1955a), Bengtsson & Johansson (2011a), Biesenbaum (2010a), Borkowski (2003a), Buhr (1935a, 1964a), Burmann (1991a), Buszko (1992b), Fazekas & Schreurs (2012a), Gielis, Huisman, Kuchlein ao (1985a), Hering (1924b, 1930b, 1957a, 1963a), Huisman, Koster, van Nieukerken & Ellis (2007a), Kasy (1965a), Klimesch (1937b, 1950c), Kuchlein & Donner (1993a), Kuchlein & de Vos (1999a), Kurz & Embacher (2012a), Leutsch (2011a), Michalska (1970a), van Nieukerken, Gielis, Huisman ao (1993a), Nowakowski (1954a), Patočka (1996a), Patočka & Turčáni (2005a), De Prins (2010a), De Prins & Hendrickx (1987a), De Prins & Steeman (2013a), Skala & Zavřel (1945a), Svensson (1971a), Szőcs (1977a, 1978a, 1981a), Zoerner (1969a).