Filatima pseudacaciella

Filatima pseudacaciella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Filatima
Species: F. pseudacaciella
Binomial name
Filatima pseudacaciella
(Chambers, 1872)
Synonyms
  • Depressaria pseudacaciella Chambers, 1872
  • Gelechia caecella Zeller, 1873

Filatima pseudacaciella, the dusky-backed filatima moth, is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from California, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Tennessee and West Virginia.[1][2]

The forewings are dark purplish-brown, streaked and flecked with white and ocherous especially. A streak extends from the base nearly to the apex, just within the costal margin of which the prevailing hue is ocherous, mixed with white. A white costal spot at the beginning of the costal ciliae, and an opposite dorsal one, both small. The hindwings are pale ocherous-brown.

The larvae feed on the leaves of Robinia pseudacacia. They have been observed feeding within the mines of Macrosaccus robiniella, but also feed externally.[3] Young larvae are green with darker green longitudinal markings and a shining black head. Older larvae are pale brown with two dark brown longitudinal stripes and a row of dark brown spots.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Filatima at funet
  2. ↑ mothphotographersgroup
  3. ↑ Systematics and biology of the new genus Macrosaccus with descriptions of two new species (Lepidoptera, Gracillariidae)
  4. ↑ Can. Ent. 4 (6): 107
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