Fomoria deschkai (Klimesch, 1978)

Hypericum sp., Rhodes; uit Klimesch (1978b)

Hypericum triquetrifolium, Rhodes; uit Klimesch (1978b)

mine

Egg at the leaf underside. The mine begins as a very narrow, mostly very tortuous corridor that is almost filled with frass. The corridor abruptly widens into a blotch, with central deposition of frass. The blotch can overrun most of the older corridor. Pupation within the mine, in an elongated silken cocoon; prior to pupation the larva has made a silken tube connecting the cocoon with the spot at the leaf underside where the adult moth is to appear.

hostplants

Hypericaceae, monophagous

Hypericum hircinum, triquetrifolium.

phenology

Probably several generations.

distribution within Europe

Greece (mainland, Aegean Islands) (Fauna Europaea, 2009).

larva

Light yellow, head brown.

synonyms

Ectoedemia deschkai.

references

Klimesch (1978b), Laštůvka & Laštůvka (2000b), van Nieukerken (1986a), van Nieukerken, Doorenweerd, Hoare & Davis (2016a).