''Caloptilia roscipennella'' is a
moth of the family
Gracillariidae. It is known from all of central and southern
Europe.
Adults are on wing from August to May and hibernate.
The
larvae feed on ''
Juglans regia''. 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
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the leaves of their host plant. The mine consists of an epidermal corridor, which is either lower- or upper-surface. The corridor widens into a tentiform mine, usually close to the leaf margin. Older larvae leave the mine and live in a leaflet, rolled into a tube.
Pupation under a silk membrane in a conical roll at the edge of a leaf.
References
roscipennella
Moths of Europe
Moths described in 1796
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