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Swammerdamia pyrella is a moth of the family Yponomeutidae. It is found in Europe, North America and Japan.

Gnawed hawthorn leaf
Gnawed hawthorn leaf
Larva
Larva

Swammerdamia pyrella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Yponomeutidae
Genus: Swammerdamia
Species:
S. pyrella
Binomial name
Swammerdamia pyrella
(Villers, 1789)
Synonyms
  • Phalaena pyrella Villers, 1789

The wingspan is 10–13 mm. The head is white or whitish ochreous. Thorax is dark fuscous, whitish-sprinkled. Forewings are fuscous, faintly purplish-tinged, closely irrorated with dark fuscous, and irregularly sprinkled with whitish; a dark purplish fuscous entire fascia before middle; a whitish anteapical costal spot; cilia dark coppery - fuscous. Hindwings are grey. The larva is pale yellow; subdorsal line dark red-brown; 4-12 with pale brown anterior bands; head brown, sides blackish.[1]

The moth flies in two generations from late April to August..

The larvae feed on Crataegus, apple, pear and cherry.


Notes


  1. ^ The flight season refers to Belgium and the Netherlands. This may vary in other parts of the range.

References


  1. Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London pdf This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Keys and description






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