Exaeretia allisella

Exaeretia allisella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Depressariidae
Genus:	Exaeretia
Species:	E. allisella
Binomial name
	Exaeretia allisella; Stainton, 1849[1]
Synonyms
	Depressaria lechriosema Meyrick, 1928;

Exaeretia allisella is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in most of northern and central Europe, Siberia, the Russian Far East, Mongolia and northern and central China.[2]

A sprig of Lithospermum officinale eaten by larva

Larva

The wingspan is 20–23 mm.[3] The forewings are reddish -grey,irregularly and suffusedly irrorated with whitish ; a cloudy ferruginous fascia from middle of costa to tornus, marked with a dark fuscous spot in middle, and edged anteriorly with whitish suffusion. Hindwings pale yellowish-grey.The larva is greyish-green, dorsally reddish tinged; spots dark grey; head yellow-brown.[4]

Adults are on wing from July to August.[5]

The larvae feed on Artemisia vulgaris. They first feed in the rootstock, but later in the young stems.

The species is named after Thomas Henry Allis, who collected some of the original specimen and sent them to Stainton for his revision of the genus.[6][7]

References

Fauna Europaea
"Exaeretia Stainton, 1849" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Hants Moths
Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London pdf This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Keys and description
UKMoths
"Obituary: Thomas Henry Allis". Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (76): 90–91. September 1870.
Stainton, H. T. (1849). "On the Species of Depressaria, a Genus of Tineidae, and the allied Genera Orthotaelia and Exaeretia". The Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 5: 151–173.

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[1] Fauna Europaea

[2] "Exaeretia Stainton, 1849" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

[3] Hants Moths

[4] Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London pdf This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Keys and description

[5] UKMoths

[EMM-6] "Obituary: Thomas Henry Allis". Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (76): 90–91. September 1870.

[7] Stainton, H. T. (1849). "On the Species of Depressaria, a Genus of Tineidae, and the allied Genera Orthotaelia and Exaeretia". The Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 5: 151–173.