Carpatolechia proximella
| Carpatolechia proximella | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Arthropoda | 
| Class: | Insecta | 
| Order: | Lepidoptera | 
| Family: | Gelechiidae | 
| Genus: | Carpatolechia | 
| Species: | C. proximella | 
| Binomial name | |
|  Carpatolechia proximella (Hübner, 1796)[1]  | |
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Carpatolechia proximella is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It is found in most of Europe (except for the Iberian Peninsula and most of the Balkan Peninsula), Turkey, the Caucasus, Central Asia and Siberia.[2]
The wingspan is 13–17 mm. Adults are on wing from May to June.
The larvae feed on Betula and Alnus.
Subspecies
- Carpatolechia proximella proximella
 - Carpatolechia proximella peritella (Constant, 1885) (Corsica)
 
References
- ↑ Fauna Europaea
 - ↑ Junnilainen, J. et al. 2010: The gelechiid fauna of the southern Ural Mountains, part II: list of recorded species with taxonomic notes (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Zootaxa, 2367: 1–68. Preview
 
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