Acalyptris minimella (Rebel, 1926)
on Pistacia
Pistacia lentiscus, France, Corse, Haute Corse, Galéria © Stéphane Claerebout: upperside of the leaf with the egg and the larva in dorsal view
underside; the larva shows its ventral ganglion
Pistacia lentiscus, France, Corsica, Belgodère, plage de Lozari © Stéphane Claerebout
same mine, detail
another mine
Pistacia lentiscus, Spain, Sierra de Grazalema; from van Nieukerken (2007a)
details
Pistacia lenticus, Rhodes; from Klimesch (1978b)
mine
Egg on leaf upperside, usually close to a vein. The mine begins as an extremely narrow, rather straight corridor, filled with frass, often following the margin of the leaflet or the midrib. Well over half of the lenght of the mine the corridor gradually widens and begins to zigzag more or less; frass here coiled or in discrete grains, about 2/3 of the corridor width. Pupation outside the mine, exit slit in upper epidermis.
Leaflets with completed mines usually discolouring and easily falling off (van Nieukerken, 2007a).
hostplants
Anacardiaceae, narrowly monophagous
Pistacia lentiscus.
Only once found on Pistacia terebinthus (Gibraltar) (van Nieukerken ao, 2004a) .
phenology
More than one generation per year (van Nieukerken, 2007a).
distribution within Europe
Western Mediterranean, from Gibraltar to (roughly) northern Greece (van Niekerken, 2007a).
larva
Yellow.
synonyms
Weberina, Niepeltia lentiscella Groschke, 1944; Trifurcula minimella.
references
Arenberger & Wimmer (1996a), Groschke (1944a), Hering (1957a), Klimesch (1978b), A & Z Laštuvka (1997a, 2005a, 2008a), Z & A Laštůvka (2009b), Maček (1999a), van Nieukerken (2007a), van Nieukerken, A & Z Laštuvka (2004a, 2006a), Skala (1939a), Triberti & Braggio (2011a), Zerafa & van Nieukerken (2011a).