The leaf and stem  mines of British flies and other insects by Brian Pitkin, Willem Ellis, Colin Plant and Rob Edmunds


HOME : Introduction : Methods : Miners : Parasitoids
Host plants by Scientific name : Common name
References : Web resources : Acknowledgements : Recent changes : Index : Search


Epermenia insecurella (Stainton, 1854)
[Lepidoptera: Epermeniidae]


Elachista insecurella Stainton, 1854. Cat. Brit. Tin.: 24.
Elachista dentosella
Stainton, 1851.
Epermenia plumbeella
Rebel, 1915. Iris 29: 198.
Epermenia insecurella
(Stainton, 1854).


Leaf-mine: Details unknown.

Larva: Details unknown.

Pupa: Details unknown.

Hosts in Britain:

Santalaceae      
Thesium humifusum Bastard-toadflax Plant, in Pitkin & Plant, 2005

Hosts elsewhere: Unknown.

Time of year - mines: Unknown.

Time of year - adults: Unknown.

Distribution in Britain: British Is. (Karsholt & van Nieukerken in Fauna Europaea) including East Sussex (NBN Gateway distribution map - NE).

Distribution elsewhere: Widespread in Europe including Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, French mainland, Germany, Hungary, Italian mainland, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Russia - Central and South, Slovakia, Spanish mainland, Switzerland, Ukraine and Yugoslavia (Karsholt & van Nieukerken in Fauna Europaea).

Parasitoids: Unknown.



External links: Search the internet:

Belgian Lepidoptera
British leafminers
NBN Gateway
Nederlandse bladmineerders
Fauna Europaea [293020]
UKMoths

Find using Google
Find using Google Scholar
Find images using Google

Top of page

Last updated 28-Sep-2008  Brian Pitkin