Phyllonorycter populifoliella (Treitschke, 1833)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Gracillarioidea → family Gracillariidae → subfamily Lithocolletinae → genus Phyllonorycter → species Phyllonorycter populifoliella

Species name(s)

Phyllonorycter populifoliella (Treitschke, 1833) = Lithocoletis populifoliella Treitschke, 1833 = Phyllonorycter populifoliellus = Phyllonorycter pilosissimella Bruand, 1858 = Phyllonorycter petrazzaniella Costantini 1923. [9, 10, 187]

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 3.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #2. Kolsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #26. Predbaikalsky; #28. Zabaikalsky; #37. Nizhne-Amursky.

Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Lithocoletis populifoliella [11].

Distribution

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union - the European part, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [1].
Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Corsica, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway ( mainland), Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Finland,France (mainland), Czech Republic, Switzerland, Estonia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, the European North-West, Central European, European southern taiga, Transbaikalia, Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Kola, Nizhne-Amur, of Baikal, the Volga-Average, Average Urals, South West Siberian. [3].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

The wingspan of 8 to 9 mm. The front wings are white with brownish-gray and blackish spots feature at the top. The hind wings are grayish. [11].

Imago lifespan

Spring, fall and even winter (in the homes). [11].

General info about Larva

Under the influence of caterpillars leaves of host plants at first covered with white spots, then turn brown spots. [11].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Poplar [11].

Overwintering stage

Imago in bark crevices, under bark and in other similar places. [11].

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Andrey Ponomarev.

Text data: Peter Khramov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

References

[1] O. Karsholt, J. Razowski (eds.), 1996. The Lepidoptera of Europe: a distributional checklist
[3] Каталог чешуекрылых (Lepidoptera) России. Под ред. С. Ю. Синёва. СПб.; М.: Товарищество научных изданий КМК, 2008
[9] Tree of Life (funet.fi), 2012
[10] de Jong, Y.S.D.M. (ed.) (2011) Fauna Europaea version 2.4 (faunaeur.org)
[11] Жизнь животных по А. Э. Брему. Т.2: Членистоногие. М.: Учпедгиз РСФСР, 1941
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org