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Phalaena occultella

Description

The occultella group

95. Ectoedemia occultella (Linnaeus, 1767)

Phalaena (Tinea) occultella Linnaeus, 1767: 899. Tinea mediofasciella Haworth, 1828: 584.

Nepticula lindquisti Freeman, 1962: 522, 523.

Host-plants. Betula spp. (incl. B. alleghaniensis Britton, B. nana L., B. papyrifera Marshall, B. pendula Roth, B. pubescens Ehrh.), occasionally Salix pentandra L.

Distribution. Widespread in Europe; known from the Russian Far East (Sakhalin), Japan, and North America (Canada: Ontario and USA: Maine).

Notes

Published as part of Rocienė, Agnė & Stonis, Jonas R., 2013, Nepticulidae (Lepidoptera) of East Asia (2). Study of a collection sample deposited at the Russian Academy of Sciences, with descriptions of new species and a checklist, pp. 75-116 in Zootaxa 3652 (2) on page 112, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3652.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/247181

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Biodiversity

Family
Nepticulidae
Genus
Phalaena
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Lepidoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Species
occultella
Taxon rank
species