Apodia bifractella
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Apodia |
| Species: | A. bifractella |
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Apodia bifractella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in most of Europe, as well as Turkey, the Caucasus and North Africa.[2]
The wingspan is 9–12 mm. The head and palpi are orange, the face sometimes whitish. The forewings are dark fuscous, sprinkled with grey-whitish, dorsally more or less mixed with ferruginous orange usually with a more distinct small tornal orange mark and an ill-defined ochreous-whitish or pale orange costal spot beyond it, sometimes finely connected . Veins 7 and 8 arise out of vein 6. The hindwings are grey. Larva almost apodal, stout, whitish.[3] [4] [5][6]
Adults are on wing from July to August.[7]
The larvae feed on Pulicaria dysenterica, Inula conyzae and Aster tripolium.
References
- ^ Fauna Europaea
- ^ Junnilainen, J. et al. 2010: The gelechiid fauna of the southern Ural Mountains, part II: list of recorded species with taxonomic notes (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Zootaxa, 2367: 1–68. Preview
- ^ 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
- ^ Heath, J.,ed. 1976 The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland Vol. 4 Part 2
- ^ Langmaid, J. R., Palmer, S. M. & Young, M. R. [eds]. 2018 A Field Guide to the Smaller Moths of Great Britain and Ireland [3rd ed.]Reading, Berkshire. British Entomological and Natural History Society
- ^ lepiforum.de includes images This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ UKmoths