''Agonopterix angelicella'' is a

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of the family

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. It is found in most of

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, except the

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and south-eastern Europe. It is also found on the

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and

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(the West Siberian Lowland and

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) and in

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

Agonopterix angelicella a leaf of Angelica sylvestris inhabited by larva

The

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is 16–21 mm. The head is light ochreous yellow. Forewings rosy-ochreous, costa more rosy, somewhat sprinkled with dark fuscous ; first discal stigma black, often minute or obsolete, preceded by a larger similar dot obliquely above it, second black, placed in a dark fuscous suffusion sometimes tending to form an indistinct fascia, plical sometimes distinct, black ; blackish terminal dots. Hindwings whitish grey. The larva is greenish-grey; dots black; head reddish-ochreous ; 2 ochreous-tingcd Meyrick, E., 1895 ''A Handbook of British Lepidoptera'' MacMillan, Londo
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Keys and description Adults are on wing from August to September. The larvae feed among spun leaves or shoots of ''

Angelica ''Angelica'' is a genus of about 60 species of tall biennial and perennial herbs in the family Apiaceae, native to temperate and subarctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere, reaching as far north as Iceland, Lapland, and Greenland. They grow t ...

'' and '' Heracleum''. Other recorded food plants include '' Laserpitium'', '' Aegopodium'', '' Pimpinella saxifraga'' and ''

Pastinaca ''Pastinaca'' (parsnips) is a genus of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae, comprising 14 species. Economically, the most important member of the genus is ''Pastinaca sativa'', the parsnip. Etymology The etymology of the generic name ''Pastin ...

''.

Subspecies

*''Agonopterix angelicella angelicella'' *''Agonopterix angelicella ochrosephara'' Saito, 1980 (Japan)

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Agonopterix Moths of Asia Moths of Europe Moths described in 1813 {{Agonopterix-stub