Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Douglasiidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Tinagma | |
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Tinagma balteolella is a moth in the Douglasiidae family. It is found in Great Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Spain, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine. It is also found in Morocco and Jordan.
The wingspan is 8–9 mm.
The larvae feed on Echium vulgare and Echium biebersteini. They mine the stems of their host plant. The species overwinters in a cocoon.
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