Rufous-tipped Swammerdamia Moth
Swammerdamia pyrella Villers, 1789
Rufous-tipped Swammerdamia Moth: https://marylandbiodiversity.com/species/19056
Synonyms
Hodges #2414  Swammerdamia beirnei 
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2 Records

Status

"Doganlar (1979) appears to have replaced this with Swammerdamia beirnei based on slight differences is wing pattern and genitalia. BOLD barcodes do not appear to distinguish between North American samples of beirnei and pyrella. It seems that either the species currently treated here as pyrella should include as a synonym beirnei or it should be changed to beirnei (BugGuide, 8/7/2017). BugGuide retains this species as Swammerdamia pyrella.

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Source: Wikipedia

Swammerdamia pyrella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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

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

Gnawed hawthorn leaf
Larva

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.[1].

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

Notes

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

References

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