Antispila iviella
| Antispila iviella | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Heliozelidae |
| Genus: | Antispila |
| Species: | A. iviella |
| Binomial name | |
| Antispila iviella Kuroko, 1961 | |
Antispila iviella is a moth of the Heliozelidae family. It was described by Kuroko in 1961. It is found in Japan (Yakushima).
The wingspan is 5–6 mm. The forewings are dark bronzy-fuscous with brassy reflections, becoming purplish reflections towards the apex and termen. The basal area is shining dark leaden and the markings are rather raised and silvery-metallic tinged with faint golden. The hindwings are pale fuscous with feeble lusters.[1] Adults appear in July.
The larvae feed on Parthenocissus tricuspidata. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a full depth linear-blotch. The larva first makes a whitish brown linear mine, which later becomes an irregular wavy gallery, sometimes in the form of a spiral at the beginning. After continuing to feed in this linear track for some distance, the mine develops rather abruptly into a pale brown irregular blotch. The frass is blackish brown and is deposited in a line along the center of the linear mine. In the blotch mine, it is scattered in a large pale brown patch in the middle of the mine. Larvae have been recorded at the end of October. Full-grown larvae cut out a case in which they hibernate.
References
- ↑ Kuroko, Hiroshi, 1961: The genus Antispila from Japan, with descriptions of seven new species (Lepidoptera: Heliozelidae). Esakia 3: 11-24.