Distributed across most of the British Isles, the adults of this species often show a slight purplish tinge to the brown colour of the forewing. The larvae feed ...
Argyresthia semifusca is a moth of the family Yponomeutidae. It is found in Europe.
Open woodland where foodplant occurs. One of several similar species in this genus, often showing a slight purplish tinge to the brown colour of the forewing.
Description: Wingspan c.12 mm. The adults of this species often show a slight purplish tinge to the brown colour of the forewing.
A large Argyresthia species. Shining grey to brown forewings sometimes with a purple reflection and with a clear white top of head, thorax and dorsum.
It flies Jun to mid-July. A.semifusca: (ws 10-13mm) has brown tegulae showing some contrast with the forewing ground colour. it may show some white costal ...
Kingdom. Animalia · Phylum. Arthropoda · Class. Insecta · Order. Lepidoptera · Family. Argyresthiidae · Genus. Argyresthia Hübner, 1825.
Common in open woodland and hedgerows throughout the British Isles, less numerous in the south. In Hampshire it has perhaps been under-recorded in the past, ...
slight rotund to fusiform swelling of a young, but no longer green shoot, often just below a side branch; inside a yellow caterpillar; pupation external.
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