''Apatetris elymicola'' 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 ...
(
Hokkaidô).
The
wingspan is 10.1–11.4 mm. The forewings are pale grey, irrorated with fuscous, becoming darker towards apex and with two stigmata on the plica, one at the plical half and the other at three-fourths. The hindwings are fuscous.
The larvae feed on ''
Elymus mollis
''Leymus mollis'' is a species of grass known by the common names American dune grass, American dune wild-rye, sea lyme-grass, strand-wheat,Higman, P. J. and M. R. Penskar. 1999Special plant abstract for ''Leymus mollis'' (American dune wild-rye) ...
''. 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. Three to five larvae may mine a single leaf blade. Mature
larvae overwinter in the mine. Pupation takes place in a dead leaf.
Tijdschr. Ent. 143 (1–2)
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References
Moths described in 2000
Apatetris
Moths of Japan
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