''Trifurcula bupleurella'' 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 ...
of the family
Nepticulidae. It is found in southern
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...
and the
Iberian Peninsula
The Iberian Peninsula (),
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* Aragonese and Occitan: ''Peninsula Iberica''
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* french: Péninsule Ibérique
* mwl, Península Eibérica
* eu, Iberiar penintsula also known as Iberia, is a peninsula in southwestern Europe, defi ...
.
The larvae feed on ''
Bupleurum fruticosum
''Bupleurum fruticosum'' or shrubby hare's-ear is a species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae.
It is endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, c ...
'' and ''
Bupleurum rigidum''. 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 upper-surface, whitish corridor. It is narrow at first, but considerably widening later. 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 deposited in a thin black central line. Some mines are contorted and confined to a limited space, others follow a vein and are quite long.
External links
bladmineerders.nlFauna Europaea
Nepticulidae
Moths of Europe
Moths described in 1907
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