Mirificarma cytisella

Mirificarma cytisella
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Mirificarma
Species:	M. cytisella
Binomial name
Mirificarma cytisella (Treitschke, 1833)[1]
Synonyms
Lita cytisella Treitschke, 1833 Gelechia cytisella ab. roseella Hauder, 1918

Mirificarma cytisella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found from most of Europe (except Ireland, Great Britain, Fennoscandia, the Baltic region and part of the Balkan Peninsula) to the Ural Mountains.[2]

The wingspan is 6–8 mm for males and 6-7.5 mm for females.

The larvae feed on Cytisus nigricans, Genista, Calicotome spinosa, Ononis spinosa and possibly Laburnum anagyroides. They feed mostly from within two or three spun leaves.[3][4] Larvae can be found in June, September and October.

Subspecies

• Mirificarma cytisella cytisella
• Mirificarma cytisella leonella Amsel, 1959 (Portugal)

References

1. Fauna Europaea
2. Junnilainen, J. et al. 2010: The gelechiid fauna of the southern Ural Mountains, part II: list of recorded species with taxonomic notes (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Zootaxa, 2367: 1–68. Preview
3. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History)
4. bladmineerders.nl