Monochroa arundinetella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found from Fennoscandia to the Pyrenees, Alps and Hungary and from Great Britain to Ukraine.
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Gelechiidae |
Genus: | Monochroa |
Species: | M. arundinetella |
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Monochroa arundinetella (Stainton, 1858)[1] | |
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The larvae feed on Carex acutiformis, Carex riparia and Carex rostrata. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a narrow, long corridor. It may change direction. The larva may leave the mine and restart elsewhere. Pupation takes place within the mine in a white cocoon.[3] Larvae can be found from March to May. They are whitish with a black head.
Some sources list Boyd as the author of the species, claiming it was described by him in 1857.
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