Trifurcula bupleurella
Trifurcula bupleurella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in southern France and the Iberian Peninsula.
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nepticulidae |
| Genus: | Trifurcula |
| Species: | T. bupleurella |
| Binomial name | |
| Trifurcula bupleurella (Chretien, 1907) | |
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The larvae feed on Bupleurum fruticosum and Bupleurum rigidum. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine consists of an upper-surface, whitish corridor. It is narrow at first, but considerably widening later. The frass is deposited in a thin black central line. Some mines are contorted and confined to a limited space, others follow a vein and are quite long.
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