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Digitivalva pulicariae is a moth of the family Acrolepiidae. It is found in most of Europe, except Portugal, Fennoscandia, the Baltic region and Poland.[1]

Digitivalva pulicariae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Acrolepiidae
Genus:	Digitivalva
Species:	D. pulicariae
Binomial name
Digitivalva pulicariae (Klimesch, 1956)
Synonyms
Acrolepia pulicariae Klimesch, 1956 Inuliphila pulicariae

The wingspan is about 13 mm.[2] Adults are on wing from August to, after overwintering, May of the following year.[3]

The larvae feed on Pulicaria dysenterica. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine initially has the form of a short corridor that starts at the midrib or the leaf base. It later becomes a whitish or brownish full depth blotch. The frass is deposited in irregularly dispersed grains. A single larva creates several mines. Pupation takes place outside of the mine in a reticulate cocoon, under a leaf or among litter.[4] The larvae are yellowish green with a brown head. They can be found from June to July.

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