Euspilapteryx auroguttella Stephens, 1835
gold-dot slender
Hypericum perforatum, Belgium, prov. Namur, Jemelle © Jean-Yves Baugnée
Hypericum perforatum, Meinweg, Duin en Kruisberg
Hypericum hirsutum, St. Gerlach; initial galleries
Hypericum perforatum, France, dép. Bouches-du_Rhône, La Ciotat © Hélène Dumas: vacated mine with exuvium
mine
The mine begins as an, occasionally quite long, lower-surface epidermal corridor. Its last section is widened into a blotch. Only then the larva begins to consume parenchymatous tissue and to line the inside of the mine with silk. The upper surface of the mine turns orange brown, and the leaf folds itself around the mine. Frass in a clump in a corner of the mine. In the end the larva leaves its mine, and then lives free in a leaf tip that has been folded downwards; here also the cocoon is made.
host plants
Hypericaceae, monophagous
Hypericum adenotrichum, cerastoides, elegans, hircinum, hirsutum, humifusum, maculatum, montanum, olympicum, perforatum, tetrapterum.
phenology
Larvae in June and September – October (Emmet ao, 1985a).
BENELUX
BE recorded (Phegea, 2009).
NE recorded (Kuchlein & de Vos, 1999a; Microlepidoptera.nl, 2009).
LUX recorded (Fauna Europaea, 2009).
distribution within Europe
All Europe (Fauna Europaea, 2009).
larva, pupa,cocoon
pupa
Described by Patočka & Turčáni (2005a).
synonyms
Calybites, Eucalybites, auroguttella.
references
Baldizzone (2004a), Beiger (1955a, 1960a, 1965a, 1970a), Bengtsson & Johansson (2011a), Biesenbaum (2010a), Brown (1947a), Buhr (1935b, 1964a), Buszko (1992b), Buszko & Beshkov (2004a), Deschka & Wimmer (2000a), Deutschmann (2008a), Emmet, Watkinson & Wilson (1985a), Hering (1921a, 1924b), Huber (1969a), Huemer (2012a), Huemer & Erlebach (2003a), Huisman, Koster, van Nieukerken & Ulenberg (2005a), Jaworski (2009a), Kuchlein & Donner (1993a), Kuchlein & de Vos (1999a), Leutsch (2011a), Maček (1999a), Michalska (1970a, 1972a), Michna (1975a), Nunes (2021a), Patočka & Turčáni (2005a), Pinzari, Pinzari & Zilli (2013a), Robbins (1991a), Schmid (2019a), Skala & Zavřel (1945a), Sønderup (1949a), Szőcs (1977a, 1978a, 1981a), Triberti & Braggio (2011a), Zoerner (1969a).