Agonopterix subpropinquella

Depressiidae : Depressiinae

Agonopterix subpropinquella

AGONOPTERIX subpropinquella ( Stainton, 1849)

Kind permission - © Tim Norriss

Life Cycle Guide

Description

Vernacular Name: Ruddy Flat-body
Wingspan: 16 - 22mm
Worldwide Distribution: Europe - less (Bulgaria,Croatia,Estonia,Lithuania,Luxembourg,Romania,Slovakia,Slovenia & A few Mediterranean Islands ) : North Africa : Asia Minor : Syria
UK Distribution: Common in South,scarce in the North - more coastal in Ireland & Scotland
UK Conservation Status -

Common = > 300 10km squares

European Conservation Status -

Least Concern

Original Species Name -

Depressaria subpropinquella ( Stainton, 1849)

Type Species - Agonopterix

Tinea signella Hübner, 1796

Type Locality -

England - Cambridgeshire

Flight Period: South - Emerge in mid July, hibernating over winter, can be seen until following May
Habitat: Roadside Verges : Hedgerows : Waste Ground
Similar Species -

Agonopterix scopariella (Heinemann, 1870)
Agonopterix propinquella (Treitschke, 1835)
Agonopterix carduella (Hübner, [1817])

Larva: Mines leaves of host plant before living within silken web. The 17mm final instar larva is dull green with dorsal vessel showing as faintly as dorsal line,black pinacula,spiracles,head and prothoracic plate
Overwinters as: Adult
Observations: The forewing is light brown with occasional reddish tinge with a pair of black dots dorsally at a third along wing and obscure browish blotch half way along wing.
Genitalia examination should be considered when separating this moth from its similar species.
A common species throughout much of England and Wales but more scarce in the North where the moth is found in coastal habitats.

Moth 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.

Asteraceae - Compositae - Aster-Daisy - Sunflower Family
- Arctium lappa - Greater Burdock - Gobo
- Carduus crispus - Welted Thistle
- Carduus tenuiflorus - Italian Thistle
- Centaurea jacea - Brown Knapweed
- Centaurea nigra - Common Knapweed
- Centauria scabiosa - Greater Knapweed
- Cirsium arvense - Creeping Thistle - Canada Thistle
- Cirsium vulgare - Common Thistle - Spear Thistle
- Onopordum acanthium - Scotch Thistle, Scotch cottonthistle

Larval Food Plants

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Animalia
Eumetozoa
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Insecta
Lepidoptera
Gelechioidea
Depressariidae
Depressariinae
Depressariini
AGONOPTERIX Hübner, [1825]
Agonopterix subpropinquella ( Stainton, 1849)
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Tinea signella Hübner, 1796
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DEPRESSARIA subpropinquella ( Stainton, 1849)
= Depressaria amilcarella Lucas, 1950
= Depressaria rhodochrella Herrich-Schäffer 1854
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Transactions of the Entomological Society of London by Royal Entomological Society of London 5 : Title Page : p.156 - sp.10 ; pl.17 - f.3
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England - Cambridgeshire
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A.s.f.rhodochrella Herrich-Schäffer, 1854 - darker head and thorax with pronounced wind markings