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Bedellia silvicolella

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Bedelliidae

Scientific name
  
Bedellia silvicolella

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Bedellia

Rank
  
Species

Bedellia silvicolella is a moth in the Bedelliidae family. It is endemic to the Canary Islands.

The larvae feed on Convolvulus canariensis and Convolvulus floridus. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine starts as a slender corridor with a thick, central frass line that sometimes occupies the entire width of the leaf. Later, larvae create larger, brownish, full-depth fleck mines, often in different leaves.

References

Bedellia silvicolella Wikipedia