Depressaria marcella

Depressaria marcella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Depressariidae
Genus:	Depressaria
Species:	D. marcella
Binomial name
Depressaria marcella Rebel, 1901
Synonyms
Depressaria chneouriella Lucas, 1939 Depressaria cuprinella Walsingham, 1907 Platyedra cruenta Meyrick, 1920 Depressaria marcella marcidella Walsingham, 1907

Depressaria marcella is a moth of the Depressariidae family. It is found in France, Spain, Portugal, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Greece and Turkey and on Sardinia and Sicily.^[1] It has also been recorded from Israel,^[2] Iran and North Africa.^[3]

The wingspan is about 15 mm. The forewings are light brownish, towards the base faintly rosy-tinged and in the disc somewhat mixed with whitish-ochreous. There is an undefined rather dark fuscous suffusion forming a basal patch, as well as a streak along the costa and there are oblique streaks from this to the disc before and beyond the middle indicating the stigmata. There is a rather broad angulated subterminal fascia and a narrow terminal fascia almost confluent with it. The hindwings are light grey.^[4]

The larvae feed on the flower buds of Daucus species, including Daucus carota and Daucus muricatus.^[5]

References

1. Fauna Europaea
2. Jonathan's Check-List of Israeli insects
3. Dritter Nachtrag zur Mikrolepidopterenfauna Zyperns
4. Exotic Microlep. 2 (10): 298
5. New and interesting Portuguese Lepidoptera records from 2008 (Insecta: Lepidoptera)