Leucoptera malifoliella (Costa, 1836)

Seven, Selma, 2006, Lyonetiidae of Turkey with notes on their distribution and zoogeography (Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 1245, pp. 53-58 : 56

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.172914

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6262609

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/653487FB-FF82-C03F-FEB1-D0C1FA9B7618

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Leucoptera malifoliella (Costa, 1836)
status

 

Leucoptera malifoliella (Costa, 1836) View in CoL

Synonyms: malifoliella (Costa, 1836) ; scitella Zeller, 1839 .

Host plants

Chaenomeles View in CoL , Crataegus View in CoL , Cydonia , Malus View in CoL , Mespilus View in CoL , Prunus View in CoL , Pyrus View in CoL , Sorbus View in CoL , Cotoneaster View in CoL , Cerasus , Alnus View in CoL , Amelanchier View in CoL , Cotoneaster View in CoL , Betula View in CoL , and Corylus View in CoL ? ( Heinemann 1877, Hering 1957, Balachowsky 1966, Seksyaeva 1981, Ecevit et. al. 1987, Parenti, 2000).

Distribution

Russia: European part (except northernmost regions), Siberia (Irkutsk, Yakutia), Ukraine, Transcaucasia, Kazakhstan, Middle Asia, Europe (except northern part), Asia Minor, Middle East, Iran, North Africa, and China ( Baryshnikova 1996).

Distribution in Turkey ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 ): Bursa ( Mann 1862), Ordu (Ünye), Giresun (Bulancak) ( Ecevit et al. 1987).

Remarks

Ecevit et al. (1987) report this species as an important pest of hazelnut in Samsun, Ordu, Giresun, and Trabzon. However, because there are no other literature records of this species feeding on hazelnut, the information provided by Ecevit et al. (1987) is suspect.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Lyonetiidae

Genus

Leucoptera

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