Calybites magnifica (Stainton, 1867)

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mine

Egg at the underside of the leaf. Here begins a long, lower-surface, strongly branching, epidermal, corridor. After a while deeper layers of tissue are eaten, and the mine develops into a tentiform mine with dispersed frass. Finally the mine is left, and the larva makes on another leaf a marginal roll, almost always folded downwards, which is eaten out from the inside. Thee larva leaves the roll for pupation by biting a round opening. Pupation takes place in a cocoon that is made at the margin usually of the same leaf. The cocoon is yellowish white, strongly shining, 7-9 mm long with a length fold.

hostplants

Berberidaceae, monophagous

Epimedium alpinum.

phenology

Larvae in July, August.

distribution within Europe

Southern Alps and former Yugoslavia (J & W De Prins, 2010).

larva

The mining larva is green, the free living one pale greenish yellow. Klimesch (1946b) gives a detailed account of the morphology and chaetotaxy.

pupa

C. 6 mm, pale yellowish. See Klimesch (1946b) for a description.

synonyms

Caloptilia, Xanthospilapteryx magnifica.

references

Hering (1957a), Klimesch (1946b, 1950c), Maček (1999a).