''Apatetris elaeagnella'' is a
moth of the family
Gelechiidae. It was described by Sakamaki in 2000. It is found 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 ...
(
Honshu and
Kyushu
is the third-largest island of Japan's five main islands and the most southerly of the four largest islands ( i.e. excluding Okinawa). In the past, it has been known as , and . The historical regional name referred to Kyushu and its surroun ...
).
The
wingspan is 5.4–9.2 mm. The forewings are cupreous black, but shining cupreous violet between the plica and dorsum and silver on the basal one-seventh. There are three costal silver strigulae running in parallel with each other on the median one-third. Three similar strigulae are found in the basal half of the dorsum and a silver blotch occupies the apical one-eighths of the forewing. There are also two white blotches, one at the apical one-fourth of the costa and the other at the apical two-fifths of the dorsum. The hindwings are fuscous. There are two generations per year.
The larvae feed on ''
Elaeagnus macrophylla
''Elaeagnus macrophylla'', the broad-leaved oleaster, is a species of flowering plant native to eastern Asia.
Growing to tall by broad, it is a substantial spreading evergreen shrub, with round glossy leaves which are silvery when young. Heavi ...
'',
''Elaeagnus multiflora'' var. ''hortensis'', ''
Elaeagnus umbellata'' and ''
Elaeagnus pungens
''Elaeagnus pungens'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Elaeagnaceae, known by the common names thorny olive, spiny oleaster and silverthorn; also by the family name "oleaster". It is native to Asia, including China and Japan. It is ...
''. They
mine
Mine, mines, miners or mining may refer to:
Extraction or digging
* Miner, a person engaged in mining or digging
*Mining, extraction of mineral resources from the ground through a mine
Grammar
*Mine, a first-person English possessive pronoun
...
the leaves of their host plant. Larvae of the autumn generation overwinter within the mine.
''Tijdschrift voor entomologie'' 143 (1–2)
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References
Moths described in 2000
Apatetris
Moths of Japan
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