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Momphidae

Mompha (Anybia) langiella

MOMPHA (Anybia) langiella (Hübner, 1796)

Life Cycle Guide

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Description

Vernacular Name: Clouded Cosmet
Wingspan: 9-10.5mm
Worldwide Distribution: Europe - (excluding - Azores,Balearic Is.,Canary Is.,Channel Is.,Corsica,Crete,Cyprus,Greece,Luxembourg,Madeira,
Malta,Portugal,Sardinia,Sicily & Slovenia) : Caucasus
UK Distribution: Local in parts of England and Wales,more frequent in west
UK Conservation Status -

• Local = 101 - 300  10km squares

European Conservation Status -

• Least Concern

Original Species Name -

• Tinea langiella (Hübner, 1796)

Type Species - Mompha

• Tinea conturbatella Hübner, 1819

Type Locality -

• Not specified

Flight Period: August - April - univoltine
Habitat: Woodland : Shaded Woodland Rides
Similar Species -

• None

Larva: Larva mines the leaves of the host plant
Overwinters as: Adult
Observations: The forewing is dark brown with an irregular shaped white spot just beyond half way along forewing with dark,almost black patches either side of this white patch. A small thin white streak centrally position at one third is prominent.There is a scattering of white scales in the apical half along the costa as well as white marking around the head.
Moth is attracted to light.

Photo Gallery

Mompha langiella - (Hübner, 1796) - Fleet - 9 August 2016

Mompha langiella - (Hübner, 1796) - Fleet - 13 August 2016

Mompha langiella - (Hübner, 1796) - Fleet - 9 August 2016

Larval Food Plants Worldwide

Note - Plants hyperlinked in red below take the visitor to the relevant plant page on"Plants for a Future" website where further information like photos,physical characteristics,habitats,edible uses,medicinal uses,cultivation,propagation,range,height etc. are clearly listed.
Plant Families - in bold red below takes the visitor to the relevant "Lepi-plants" page where other butterflies & moths using the plants below are listed.

• Onagraceae - Evening Primrose Family
  • Circaea alpina - Small Enchanters Nightshade
    
  • Circaea lutetiana - Enchanter's Nightshade (Mines leaves)
    
  • Epilobium angustifolium - Rosebay Willow-herb (Mines leaves)
  • Epilobium hirsutum - Great Willowherb (Mines Leaves)
  • Epilobium montanum - Broad-leaved Willowherb (Mines Leaves)
  • Epilobium parviflorum - Codlins And Cream, Smallflower hairy willowherb (Mines Leaves)
  • Oenothera biennis - Evening Primrose (Mines Leaves)

Larval Food Plants

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Animalia
Eumetozoa
Arthropoda
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Insecta
Lepidoptera
Gelechioidea
Momphidae
MOMPHA Hübner 1825
Anybia Stainton 1854
Mompha (Anybia) langiella (Hübner, 1796)
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Tinea conturbatella Hübner, 1819
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TINEA langiella (Hübner, 1796)
= Anybia langiella (Hubner, 1796)
= Mompha fulicella Herrich-Schäffer 1854
= Adela unipunctella Duponchel, in Godart 1839
= Alucita epilobiella (Römer, 1794)
= Elachista niveipunctella Stainton 1849
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MOMPHA Hübner 1825 (Genus)
Anybia Stainton 1854 (Subgenus)
= Cyphophora Herrich-Schäffer 1853
= Laverna Curtis 1839
= Psacaphora Herrich-Schäffer 1853
= Anybia Stainton 1859
= Lophoptilus Sircom 1848
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Sammlung europäischer Schmetterlinge / errichtet von Jacob Hübner in Augsburg. By Hübner, Jacob, 1761-1826  Lepidoptera V111 : Tinea V : plate 27  - f.187
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No Specified