''Hodgesiella rebeli'' 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 ...

in the family

Cosmopterigidae The Cosmopterigidae are a family of insects (cosmet moths) in the order Lepidoptera. These are small moths with narrow wings whose tiny larvae feed internally on the leaves, seeds and stems of their host plants. About 1500 species are described. ...

. It is found in

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and

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. The

wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan of ...

is 11–12 mm. The ground colour of the forewings is black with three white lines. The hindwings are whitish grey. The larvae feed on ''

Convolvulus althaeoides ''Convolvulus althaeoides'' is a species of morning glory known by the common names mallow bindweed and mallow-leaved bindweed. This flowering plant is native to the Mediterranean Basin, but it is occasionally seen in other areas of similar clim ...

'', ''Convolvulus althaeoides tenuissimus'' and ''

Convolvulus cantabrica ''Convolvulus cantabrica'', common name Cantabrican morning glory or dwarf morning glory, is a herbaceous perennial plant belonging to the genus ''Convolvulus'' of the family Convolvulaceae. Description This bindweed is a hemicryptophyte scapo ...

''. 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. The mine starts as a narrow gallery where all the

frass Frass refers loosely to the more or less solid excreta of insects, and to certain other related matter. Definition and etymology ''Frass'' is an informal term and accordingly it is variously used and variously defined. It is derived from the ...

is concentrated. This narrow area quickly widens into a large blotch. The larvae create silk, which they deposit in the mine, causing some length folds to develop. The larvae can be found in May.

References

Moths described in 1905 Cosmopteriginae Moths of Europe {{Cosmopteriginae-stub