Cosmopterigidae : Cosmopterix pulchrimella

UK Family

Micropterigidae

Eriocraniidae

Cosmopterigidae: Cosmopteriginae

Cosmopterix pulchrimella

Chambers, 1875

34.009

[BF 896b] (EU 436763 / 3167)

Male Preparations

Cosmopterix pulchrimella Chambers, 1875 © Peter Hall

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Female Preparations

Cosmopterix pulchrimella Chambers, 1875 © Brian Goodey

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Other Preparation Images

Adult Images

Cosmopterix pulchrimella © Paul Kitchener

The Lizard, Cornwall, 29 September 2009

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Cosmopterix pulchrimella © Oliver Wadsworth

Ex larva. Beer VC3. 2014

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Cosmopterix pulchrimella © Oliver Wadsworth

Beer VC3. 2014

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Cosmopterix pulchrimella © Dave Wilton

Braunton Burrows, North Devon, August 21st 2017. Gen Det m PRH

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Cosmopterix pulchrimella © Ben Smart

emerged 22.6.17 - from leaf-mine on Pellitory - West Bay, Dorset - 6.6.17

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Immature Stages

Beer VC3. 02/01/2014

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larva from leaf-mine on Pellitory - West Bay, Dorset - 6.6.17.

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Tenanted leaf mine on Pellitory-of-the-wall Nr Tilmanstone, East Kent

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Other Images

Habitat - Pellitory of the Wall growing on an old wall - Bossington - Somerset - 10/09/2019 - Adults and mines were abundant on small patches of foodplant like this

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Links

Further info: Cosmopterix pulchrimella

- UK Moths

- NBN Atlas

- Fauna Europaea

- Lepiforum.de

- Svenska fjarilar

- microlepidoptera.nl

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