''Scrobipalpa nitentella'', the common sea groundling, is a
moth of the family
Gelechiidae. It is found in most of Europe,
North Africa (
Tunisia),
Turkey,
Afghanistan,
Kazakhstan,
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
(
Qinghai,
Xinjiang),
Mongolia and
Siberia (Transbaikalia).
The
wingspan is . Adults are on wing from July to August in one generation per year.
The larvae feed on ''
Atriplex hastata'', ''
Atriplex hortensis
''Atriplex hortensis'', known as garden orache, red orache or simply orache (; also spelled orach), mountain spinach, French spinach, or arrach, is a species of plant in the amaranth family used as a leaf vegetable that was common before spinac ...
'', ''
Atriplex littoralis
''Atriplex littoralis'', the grassleaf orache or grass-leaved orache (; also spelled orach) is a species of shrub in the family Amaranthaceae
Amaranthaceae is a family of flowering plants commonly known as the amaranth family, in reference to ...
'', ''
Atriplex praecox'', ''
Atriplex prostrate'', ''
Beta maritima'', ''
Chenopodium album'', ''
Halimione pedunculata
''Halimione pedunculata'', the pedunculate sea-purslane, is an annual plant occurring on salty sandy grounds along the seashore. It grows with a standing herbaceous stem up to 30 cm high. The leaves are long and spade shaped. The stipules a ...
'', ''
Halimione portulacoides'', ''
Salicornia europaea'', ''
Suaeda altissima'' and ''
Suaeda maritima
''Suaeda maritima'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae known by the common names herbaceous seepweed and annual seablite.
Description
It is a yellow-green shrub with fleshy, succulent leaves and green flowers. It grows ...
''. Young larvae
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.
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/ref> Full-grown larvae can be found from mid-August to the end of September.
References
Moths described in 1902
Scrobipalpa
Moths of Europe
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