Scrobipalpa artemisiella

"Thyme moth" redirects here. For the other moth with this common name, see Scrobipalpula artemisiella.
Scrobipalpa artemisiella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Scrobipalpa
Species: S. artemisiella
Binomial name
Scrobipalpa artemisiella
(Treitschke, 1833)[1]
Synonyms
  • Lita artemisiella Treitschke, 1833
  • Gnorimoschema artemisiellum
  • Scrobipalpa artemisiellum
  • Anacampsis ancillella Bruand. 1851
  • Scrobipalpa gregori Povolny, 1967
  • Lita oreocyrniella Petry, 1904
  • Lita paniculatella Novicki, 1924
  • Scrobipalpa artemisiella syriaca Povolný, 1967
  • Scrobipalpa artemisiella mongolensis Povolný, 1969

The thyme moth (Scrobipalpa artemisiella) is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It is found in most of Europe (except Portugal and Norway), Turkey and Syria through the Caucasus and Central Asia to Irkutsk and Mongolia. It has also been recorded from North America, but this records requires confirmation.[2]

A sprig of Thymus serpyllum eaten by larva
Larva

The wingspan is 10–12 mm.[3] Adults are on wing from June to July.[4]

The larvae feed on Thymus praecox arcticus, Thymus pulegioides, Thymus serpyllum and Satureja montana. They initially mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a small, brown, full depth blotch mine without frass. The mine is made young leaves. They feed from a protective spinning. Older larvae leave the mine and engage in upper-surface window feeding, while hidden among spun leaves.[5] Larvae can be found from May to June. They are dull brownish green with five purplish-brown length lines and a black head.

Subspecies

References

  1. ↑ Fauna Europaea
  2. ↑ 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
  3. ↑ microlepidoptera.nl
  4. ↑ UKmoths
  5. ↑ bladmineerders.nl
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