''Acrolepiopsis sapporensis'' (Asiatic onion leafminer) is a

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

of the family

Acrolepiidae The Acrolepiidae are a family of moths known as false diamondback moths. In modern classifications, they are often treated as a subfamily (Acrolepiinae) of the family Glyphipterigidae. Caterpillars are typically spotted and 10 to 12 mm in l ...

. It is native to

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, where it is found from China and

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and Japan. It is an introduced species in

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, where it was initially misidentified as ''

Acrolepiopsis assectella The leek moth or onion leaf miner (''Acrolepiopsis assectella'') is a species of moth of family Acrolepiidae (formerly Glyphipterigidae) and the genus '' Acrolepiopsis''. The species is native to Europe and Siberia, but is also found in North A ...

''. The length of the forewings is 4.7–5 mm. The larvae feed on '' Allium fistulosum'', ''

Allium cepa An onion (''Allium cepa'' L., from Latin ''cepa'' meaning "onion"), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus ''Allium''. The shallot is a botanical variety of the onion ...

'', ''

Allium porrum The leek is a vegetable, a cultivar of ''Allium ampeloprasum'', the broadleaf wild leek ( syn. ''Allium porrum''). The edible part of the plant is a bundle of leaf sheaths that is sometimes erroneously called a stem or stalk. The genus ''Alliu ...

'', '' Allium odorum'', '' Allium nipponicum'' and '' Allium schoenoprasum''. The larvae attack the leaves but sometimes also the scape, bulb or seed capsule.

External links

Taxonomic review of the leek moth genus Acrolepiopsis (Lepidoptera: Acrolepiidae) in North America
Acrolepiidae Moths of Japan Moths described in 1931 Taxa named by Shōnen Matsumura {{Yponomeutoidea-stub