Haworth's glyphipterid moth
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Glyphipterigidae
Genus: Glyphipterix
Species:
G. haworthana
Binomial name
Glyphipterix haworthana
(Stephens, 1834)[1]
Synonyms
  • Heribeia haworthana Stephens, 1834
  • Aechmia haworthana
  • Aechmia haworthella
  • Heribeia haworthana Stephens, 1834
  • Oecophora zonella Zetterstedt, [1839]
  • Glyphipteryx schultzella Amsel, 1949

Glyphipterix haworthana, Haworth's glyphipterid moth, is a moth of the family Glyphipterigidae. It is found in most of Europe, as well as North America.

A head of Eriophorum vaginatum tenanted by the larva and attached to a stem of Erica
Larva

The wingspan is 11–15 mm.[2] The forewings are rather broad, dark golden-bronzy ; five shining white strigulae on posterior half of costa, three anterior terminating in leaden metallic marks ; a thick oblique curved pointed white streak from middle of dorsum, reaching more than half across wing;a leaden-metallic tornal mark, white on margin ; three leaden metallic dots on termen ; an undefined dark apical spot ; dark line of cilia indented below apex ; a dark hook above apex. Hindwings are suboblong, grey ; cilia in male whitish.The larva is pale ochreous ; head dark brown : plate of 2 brownish-ochreous.[3]

Adults are on wing in May. It is a day-flying species.

The larvae feed on Eriophorum species.[4] They feed on the seeds of their host plant, spinning the cotton heads together or to nearby vegetation.

The name honours Adrian Hardy Haworth.

References

  1. ↑ Fauna Europaea
  2. ↑ Hants Moths
  3. ↑ 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
  4. ↑ UKmoths


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