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Scrobipalpa bryophiloides

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Gelechiidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Scrobipalpa

Scrobipalpa bryophiloides

Similar
  
Scrobipalpa acuminatella, Scrobipalpa atriplicella, Scrobipalpa costella, Scrobipalpa, Gelechiidae

Scrobipalpa bryophiloides is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It is found in eastern Europe, from Finland and Latvia through Ukraine to the Volga region and the southern Ural. It is also found from Turkey to the Middle East, Central Asia (Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Iran), China (Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Xinjiang) and Mongolia.

The length of the forewings is 5-6.1 mm. The forewings are brown-yellowish with groups of paler scales between the three black dots and at the tip. The hindwings are grey-whitish.

The larvae feed on Suaeda confusa. They possibly mine the leaves of their host plant.

References

Scrobipalpa bryophiloides Wikipedia