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Bryotropha domestica

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Gelechiidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Bryotropha

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Similar
  
Bryotropha, Bryotropha affinis, Bryotropha similis, Brachmia blandella, Aristotelia ericinella

Bryotropha domestica is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It is found from Ireland to Germany, Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria and from the Benelux to the Iberian Peninsula, Sicily, Crete and Cyprus. It is also found in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, the Middle East, Turkmenistan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

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The wingspan is 12–13 mm. The forewings are dark greyish brown, heavily mottled with pale ochreous. The hindwings are very pale glossy grey, but darker towards the apex. Adults are on wing from mid-May to early August in one generation per year.

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The larvae feed on various mosses growing on walls. They feed from within a silken gallery. Pupation takes place within an open network cocoon in this gallery. The larvae have a reddish-brown body.

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