Bohemannia pulverosella (Stainton, 1849)

dusty apple pigmy

Malus domestica, Belgium, prov. Liège, Aube; © Jean-Yves Baugnée

Malus domestica, Belgium, prov. Namur, Olloy-sur-Viroin © Stéphane Claerebout

exit slit at the underside, at the very margin of the mine

another mine, with larva

Malus domestica, Belgium, prov. Namur, Matagne-la-Grande, Commune Doische © Steve Wullaert

exit slit

mine

Egg either at upperside or underside of the leaf, close to the leaf margin. The mine begins as a narrow corridor which is strongly contorted, unless it lies close to the leaf margin. The corridor abruptly widens into an elongate blotch, that often runs over the initial corridor. The frass is brown; it almost fills the initial corridor; in the blotch it is concentrated in its first section. Pupation external; exit slit invariably in the lower epidermis (In Ectoedemia atricollis, of which the mine bears some resemblance to the one of pulverosella the exit slit is in the upper epidermis; moreover, atricollis is much later in the year.)

host plants

Rosaceae, monophagous

Malus domestica, x purpurea, sylvestris.

In the older literature also mentioned from Prunus domestica and Pyrus communis; as fas is known this has not been confirmed by breeding.

phenology

Larvae in June – July (Emmet, 1983a).

BENELUX

BE recorded (Ellis: Han-sur-Lesse).

NE recorded (Kuchlein & de Vos, 1999a; Microlepidoptera.nl, 2009).

LUX not recorded (Fauna Europaea, 2009).

distribution within Europe

From Fennoscandia to Iberia, Alps, Slovenia, and Bulgaria, and from Ireland to Central Russia and the Ukraine (Fauna Europaea, 2009; Laštůvka & Laštůvka, 2008a).

larva

Yellow (Emmet, 1983a); Gustafsson & van Nieukerken (1990a) give a description of the larva.

synonyms

Soliaula, Stigmella pulverosella.

references

Bengtsson (2008a), Borkowski (1969a), Buhr (1935b, 1964a), Černý (2001a), Corley, Nunes, Rosete, ao (2020a), Diškus & Stonis (2012a), Emmet (1971a, 1983a), van Frankenhuyzen & Houtman (1972a), van Frankenhuyzen Houtman & Kabos (1982a), Gustafsson (1985a), Gustafsson & van Nieukerken (1990a), Haase (1942a), Hering (1957a), Huber (1969a), Huemer (1985a, 1988a, 2007a), Huisman, Koster, van Nieukerken & Ulenberg (2001a, 2004a), Johansson ao (1990a), Kuchlein & Donner (1993a), Kuchlein & de Vos (1999a), Laštůvka & Laštůvka (1997a, 2008am 2o2oa), Michna (1975a), Navickaitė, Diškus & Stonis (2014), van Nieukerken (1982a, 1986a), van Nieukerken, Laštůvka & Laštůvka (2006a), van Nieukerken, Zolotuhin & Mistchenko (2004a), Nowakowski (1954a), Robbins (1991a), Schütze (1931a), Sefrová (2005a), Skala (1939a), Sønderup (1949a), Steuer (1995a), Szőcs (1977a, 1981a), Wullaert (2015a), Yefremova & Kravchenko (2015a).