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Syncopacma linella

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Gelechiidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Syncopacma

Syncopacma linella is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Chrétien in 1904. It is found in France, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Ukraine.

The wingspan is about 12 mm.

The larvae feed on Linum campanulatum and Linum narbonense. They live between spun leaves, from here mining the leaves. The mines have the form of large full-depth fleck mines.

References

Syncopacma linella Wikipedia