Gelechiidae : Gelechiinae
Scrobipalpa costella
SCROBIPALPA costella (Humphreys & Westwood, 1845)
Scrobipalpa costella
SCROBIPALPA costella (Humphreys & Westwood, 1845)
Life Cycle Guide - Adult Only
Description
Vernacular Name: Winter Groundling
Wingspan: 12-14mm
Worldwide Distribution: Europe - including - Belgium,G Britain,Channel Is.,Denmark,France,Germany,Ireland,Spain and The Netherlands
UK Distribution: Widespread in central and southern England,Wales and Channel Isles : Ireland,Isle on Man,east,central and southern Scotland - predominately coastal
UK Conservation Status -
Habitat: Hedgerows : Gardens : Damp Woodland : Shingle Beaches
Similar Species -
Overwinters as: Possibly Adult,Larva or Pupa
Observations: A fairly plain moth with a blackish triangular marking at half along the costa which only appears in a much larger and paler H.rhomboidella. This dark marking,although still there, can appear very faint or missing altogether.
Moth can be attracted using sugar and are also to be found in the light trap
Wingspan: 12-14mm
Worldwide Distribution: Europe - including - Belgium,G Britain,Channel Is.,Denmark,France,Germany,Ireland,Spain and The Netherlands
UK Distribution: Widespread in central and southern England,Wales and Channel Isles : Ireland,Isle on Man,east,central and southern Scotland - predominately coastal
UK Conservation Status -
- Common = > 300 10km squares
- Western Europe only
- Anacampis costella (Humphreys & Westwood, 1845)
- Gelechia heliopa Lower, 1900
- Not Specified
Habitat: Hedgerows : Gardens : Damp Woodland : Shingle Beaches
Similar Species -
- None
Overwinters as: Possibly Adult,Larva or Pupa
Observations: A fairly plain moth with a blackish triangular marking at half along the costa which only appears in a much larger and paler H.rhomboidella. This dark marking,although still there, can appear very faint or missing altogether.
Moth can be attracted using sugar and are also to be found in the light trap
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.
- Solanaceae - Bedstraw Family
- Atropa belladonna - Deadly Nightshade - mines leaves
- Solanum dulcamara - Bittersweet Nightshade : Woody Nightshade - mines leaves
- Atropa belladonna - Deadly Nightshade - mines leaves
Taxonomy
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Animalia
Eumetozoa Arthropoda Hexapoda Insecta Lepidoptera Gelechioidea Gelechiidae Gelechiinae SCROBIPALPA Janse 1951 Scrobipalpa costella (Humphreys & Westwood, 1845) - Gelechia heliopa Lower, 1900 - ANACAMPIS costella (Humphreys & Westwood, 1845) = Gelechia costimaculella B RUAND 1859 - SCROBIPALPA Janse 1951 = Ilseopsis Povolný 1965 = Ergasiola Povolný 1967 = Euscrobipalpa Povolný 1967 - HN & JO Westwood (1845) - British moths and their transformations. Volume II (1845) : p.192 - species 55 - Anacampis costella : plate 107 - n.8 - Not Specified |