General information:
Phalaena Tinea sparrmannella Bosc, 1791: 197, pl. 17, fig. 6, 7 Type locality: France, Paris | |
Synonyms, misspellings, wrong determinations, etc.: Tinea auropurpurella Haworth, 1828: 572 Tinea rubroaurella Haworth, 1828: 572 Micropteryx caledoniella Griffith, 1891: 300 Eriocrania fimbriata Walsingham, 1900: 106 |
Habit:
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Picture from: © Zeller Christof Detailed view |
Picture from: Kurz Michael Detailed view |
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Picture from: Kurz Michael Detailed view |
Description of adults: Examined: 1 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Remarks: The f. fimbriata Walsingham has unicolorous, shining golden wings (Heath, 1983) and is presently regarded as infrasubspecific. |
Distribution:
The species is distributed in the northern Palaearctic region, from northern and central Europe throughout Russia (west Siberian plain following Dubatolov 2012), eastwards to Japan (anonymous 2012). In Europe, the species has been recorded from most countries, except from the Iberian and the Balcan peninsula, the Mediterranean islands, as well as the north-west and the east of European Russia (Karsholt, 2004).
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Biology:
E. sparrmannella is found around birch trees, where the imagines fly in full sunshine from late April to May (Heath, 1983).
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Stages in development:
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Early mine (initial galery): Salzburg, city of Salzburg, Sam, Sam Moos, 2018.05.30, , leg. et coll. Michael Kurz | Mine on Betula pubescens: Salzburg, city of Salzburg, Sam, Sam Moos, 2015.05.09, leg. et coll. Michael Kurz | ||
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Morphology of preimaginal stages (Heath 1983). Egg. The egg is laid on a leaf of birch (Betula sp.). Larva. The larva is whitish with a brown flat head, bearing a darker brown spot on each side. It feeds from June to August in a blotch-like mine, which initially starts as a gallery near the midrib. Full-fed, the larva leaves the mine and pupates in the ground. Pupa. The pupa rests in a though, silken cocoon. |
Anatomy:
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Picture from: © Zagulayev 1978 Detailed view |
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Pregenital abdomen. Male without sensorium on sternite V.
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Diagnosis:
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Picture from: © Zagulayev 1978 Detailed view |
Picture from: © Zagulayev 1978 Detailed view |
Picture from: Pierce & Metcalfe (1935) aus Burmann (1958) Detailed view |
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Externally, Eriocrania subpurpurella (Haworth, 1828) is quite similar, but has more elongated wings and normally is less intensively marked. Similar in wing shape to E. sparrmannella is Eriocrania salopiella (Stainton, 1854), although the latter has more expanded purple markings, which are often also heavily mixed shining blueish. In the male genitalia, the appendices of the tegumen are distinctly shorter in E. subpurpurella than in E. sparrmannella, whereas in E. salopiella these appendices are distinctly longer and more delicate. |
Worth knowing:
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Sources:
anonymous 2012. An Identification Guide of Japanese Moths Compiled by Everyone. URL: http://www.jpmoth.org [online 04 November 2012]. Bosc, L. 1791. Descriptions of two new species of Phalaena. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 1: 196-197, pl. 17, fig. 6, 7. Dubatolov, V. V. 2012. Collection of Siberian Zoological Museum: Eriocraniidae. http://szmn.sbras.ru/Lepidop/Eriocran.htm [online 04 November 2012]. Griffith, M. A. 1891. Micropteryx caledoniella: Another new species, probably from Birch. The Entomologist´s monthly magazine, 27: 300. Haworth, A. H. 1828. Lepidoptera Britannica, sistens digestionem novam insectorum lepidopterorum quae in Magna Britannia reperiuntur, lavarum pabulo, temporeque pascendi; expansione alarum; mensibusque volandi; synonymis atque locis observationibusque variis. Part 4. Londini, pp. 513–609. Heath, J. 1983. The moths and butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol.I: Micropterigidae – Heliozelidae. – Harley Books, Martins, Great Horkesley, Colchester, Essex. Karsholt, O. 2004. Families Acanthopteroctetidae, Axiidae, Castniidae, Cossidae, Drepanidae, Eriocottidae, Eriocraniidae, Gelechiidae, Heterogynidae, Limacodidae, Lypusidae, Micropterigidae, Roeslerstammiidae, Somabrachyidae, Uraniidae. In: Karsholt, O. & E. J. van Nieukerken (eds.). Lepidoptera, Moths. – Fauna Europaea version 1.1, http://www.faunaeur.org [online 29 April 2008]. Walsingham, Lord M. A. 1900. A new Eriocrania from England. The Entomologist´s monthly magazine, 36: 106-107. Zagulajev, A.K. 1978. Eriocraniidae; in G.S. Medvedev (ed.): Keys to the insects of the europaean part of the USSR, Vol.IV: Lepidoptera, part 1 (english translation), Oxonian Press Pvt.Ltd., New Dehli, 1987 |
Publication data:
history: Kurz Michael: 2009.05.26 Kurz Michael: 2010.12.02 Kurz Michael: 2012.11.04 Kurz Michael: 2012.11.11 Kurz Michael: 2012.11.26 Kurz Michael: 2013.01.20 Kurz Michael: 2013.07.04 Kurz Michael: 2015.10.19 Kurz Michael: 2017.03.01 Kurz Michael: 2018.09.19 |
not reviewed |
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