''Urodeta hibernella'' is a

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of the family

Elachistidae The Elachistidae (grass-miner moths) are a family of small moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea. Some authors lump about 3,300 species in eight subfamilies here, but this arrangement almost certainly results in a massively paraphyletic and comp ...

. It is known from

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, Corsica and the

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. The larvae feed on ''

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'' and ''

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''. They

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the leaves of their host plant. The mine consists of an elongated, slightly puckered, full depth blotch, without an initial corridor. The

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is concentrated in the lowest part of the mine. After a while, the larvae leave their mine and restart elsewhere. Pupation takes place outside of the mine.bladmineerders.nl
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References

Elachistidae Moths described in 1859 Moths of Europe Taxa named by Otto Staudinger {{Elachistidae-stub