Gracillariidae : Gracillariinae
Gracillaria syringella
GRACILLARIA syringella (Fabricius, 1794)
Gracillaria syringella
GRACILLARIA syringella (Fabricius, 1794)
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Life Cycle Guide
Description
Vernacular Name: Common Slender : Lilac Leafminer : Privet Leafminer
Wingspan: 10-13mm
Worldwide Distribution: Europe - excluding (Azores,Balearic Is.,Canary Is.,Corsica,Crete,Croatia,Cyprus,Greece,Madeira,Malta & Portugal) : Near East : Nearctic Region - N America
UK Distribution: Common throughout the British Isles
UK Conservation Status -
Habitat: Woodland : Gardens
Similar Species -
Overwinters as: Pupa
Observations: The forewing is well marked in orangey brown to dark brown,mottled with white,making it the best marked species in the genus caloptilia.
The larva mine Ash,Privet,Lilac,Jasmine and Forsythia, causing damage to the plants, making it a pest in some areas.
The moth is easily disturbed during the day and is attracted to light.
Wingspan: 10-13mm
Worldwide Distribution: Europe - excluding (Azores,Balearic Is.,Canary Is.,Corsica,Crete,Croatia,Cyprus,Greece,Madeira,Malta & Portugal) : Near East : Nearctic Region - N America
UK Distribution: Common throughout the British Isles
UK Conservation Status -
- Common = > 300 10km squares
- Least Concern
- Tinea syringella (Fabricius, 1794)
- Gracillaria anastomosis Haworth, 1828
- Not Specified
Habitat: Woodland : Gardens
Similar Species -
- None
Overwinters as: Pupa
Observations: The forewing is well marked in orangey brown to dark brown,mottled with white,making it the best marked species in the genus caloptilia.
The larva mine Ash,Privet,Lilac,Jasmine and Forsythia, causing damage to the plants, making it a pest in some areas.
The moth is easily disturbed during the day and is attracted to light.
Photo Gallery
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.
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.
- Caprifoliaceae - Honeysuckle Family
- Sambucus nigra - Elderberry
- Celastraceae - Staff Vine : Bittersweet Family
- Euonymus europaeus - Spindle Tree
- Euonymus verrucosa - Birch Euonymus
- Oleceae - Olive Family
- Chionanthus virginicus - White Fringetree
- Forestiera acuminata - Swamp Privet, Eastern Swampprivet
- Forsythia x intermedia - Border Forsythia
- Forsythia suspensa - Weeping Forsythia
- Forsythia viridissima - Green-stem Forsythia
- Fraxinus americana - White Ash
- Fraxinus anomala - Single-leaf Ash
- Fraxinus excelsior - Ash
- Fraxinus nigra - Black Ash
- Fraxinus latifolia - Oregon Ash
- Fraxinus ornus var. angustifolia - Narrow-leaved Ash
- Fraxinus ornus - Manna Ash, Flowering Ash
- Fraxinus pennsylvanica - Green Ash
- Fraxinus quadrangulata - Blue Ash
- Fraxinus sogdiana - Tianshan Ash
- Jasminum nudiflorum - Winter Jasmine
- Jasminum officinale - Jessamine, Poet's jasmine
- Ligustrum ibota - No Common Name
- Ligustrum ovalifolium - Calafornia Privet
- Ligustrum vulgare - Wild Privet - European Privet
- Phillyrea latifolia - Green Olive Tree
- Syringa emodi - Himalayan Lilac
- Syringa josikaea - Hungarian Lilac
- Syringa komarowii subsp. reflexa - nodding Lilac
- Syringa reticulata - Japanese Tree Lilac
- Syringa sweginzowii - Chengtu Lilac
- Syringa vulgaris - Lilac
- Syringa X persica L. - Persian Lilac
Larval Food Plants
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Taxonomy
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Animalia
Eumetozoa Arthropoda Hexapoda Insecta Lepidoptera Gracillaroidea Gracillariidae Gracillariinae GRACILLARIA Haworth 1828 Gracillaria syringella (Fabricius, 1794) - Gracillaria anastomosis Haworth, 1828 - TINEA syringella (Fabricius, 1794) = Caloptilia syringella (Fabricius, 1794) = Gracillaria microdactylella Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775 = Gracillaria anastomosis Haworth, 1828 = Gracillaria ardeaepennella Treitschke, 1833 = Gracillaria ligustri Vallot, 1850 = Gracillaria heringiella Reutti, 1898 = Gracillaria parva Klemensiewicz - Entomologia Systematica 3 Emendata Et Aucta : Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species Aadjectis Synonimis, Locis, Observationibus, Descriptionibus : Title Page : p.328 - n.177 - Not Specified |