Pistacia lentiscus, France, Corsica, Belgodère, plage de Lozari © Stéphane Claerebout

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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).