Subfamily: GRACILLARIINAE (12G 33S) |
Key to genera
Head |
Hindtibia |
Midtibia |
Genera |
Group |
Smooth |
Without bristles |
Thickened with projecting scales |
Caloptilia, Gracillaria, Aspilapteryx, Calybites, Euspilapteryx, Povolnya |
A |
Smooth |
Without bristles |
Smooth |
Parectopa |
B |
Smooth |
With bristles |
Dialectica, Acrocercops, Leucospilapteryx |
C |
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Rough-haired |
Without bristles |
Thickened with projecting scales |
Parornix, Callisto |
D |
Keys to species
Provisional keys are provided below for Groups A and D. A key to Group C will follow when I have obtained sufficient material.
Group B contains just one species: Parectopa ononidis
Provisional keys are provided below for Groups A and D. A key to Group C will follow when I have obtained sufficient material.
Group B contains just one species: Parectopa ononidis
Group A: Caloptilia, Gracillaria, Aspilapteryx, Calybites, Euspilapteryx, Povolnya
S2 of labial palp tufted |
forewing ground colour whitish |
Caloptilia cuculipennella |
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forewing ground colour pale yellowish or pale reddish |
Povolnya leucapennella |
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S2 of labial palp not tufted |
forewing with broad whitish costal streak |
Aspilapteryx tringipennella |
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forewing with yellow antemedian spot not extending to costa |
Euspilapteryx auroguttella |
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forewing with complete fascia(e) or traces of them |
Gracillaria syringella |
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forewing with white dorsal streak |
Calybites phasianipennella |
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forewing with 2 costal and 2 dorsal spots |
Calybites phasianipennella |
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forewing with median costal blotch |
costal blotch reduced to a whitish streak representing its anterior margin |
Caloptilia semifascia |
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terminal cilia paler than ground colour |
costal blotch yellow extends along costa to near apex |
Caloptilia alchimiellia |
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costal blotch yellow not extended along costa |
Caloptilia robustella |
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terminal cilia concolorous or darker |
costal blotch yellow, quadrate, apical cilia yellow on underside |
Caloptilia semifascia f.hauderi |
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costal blotch yellow, elongate almost to apex, apical cilia fuscous on underside |
Caloptilia azaleella |
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costal blotch triangular, clear whitish, distal margin concave |
Caloptilia stigmatella |
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costal blotch triangular, pale ochreous with reddish fascia at proximal margin |
Caloptilia hemidactylella Caloptilia honoratella |
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costal blotch ill‐defined, irrorate with ground colour |
Caloptilia falconipennella |
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forewing with small blackish medial costal spot |
Caloptilia populetorum |
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ws: 11–12mm |
Caloptilia rufipennella |
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ws 14–16mm |
hindleg with trochanter and adjacent area white |
Caloptilia betulicola |
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hindleg with trochanter and adjacent area concolorous with forewing or yellowish |
Caloptilia elongella |
Group D: Parornix, Callisto
forewing dark brown with silvery white spots or strigulae |
subbasal transverse spot or strigula present |
Callisto coffeella |
no subbasal spot or strigula |
Callisto denticulella |
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forewing white or whitish, irrorate with grey or fuscous, sometimes heavily |
Parornix |
Parornix species are likely to require genital dissection for confident identification to species - but the following may help:
See Parornix for more detail.
See Parornix for more detail.
forewing white with sparse fuscous irroration and no dark costal strigulae |
Parornix alpicola ssp leucostola |
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forewing heavily irrorate with dark scales, costa with many pale strigulae |
forewing blackish fuscous, pale pattern strongly contrasting |
Parornix loganella |
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forewing pattern tinged ochreous |
Parornix fagivora/carpinella |
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terminal cilia white‐tipped at apex |
Parornix betulae |
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labial palp S3 unbanded |
forewing with basal area more fuscous than white; apical spot with white anterior margin |
Parornix torquilella |
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forewing with basal area more white than fuscous |
white subcostal streak from base to 1/3 |
Parornix alpicola |
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no white subcostal streak |
Parornix scoticella |
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labial palp S3 banded |
forewing dark fuscous; apical spot conspicuous with white anterior margin |
Parornix finimitella |
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forewing grey, underside with pale line of terminal cilia reaching subapical costal strigula |
Parornix devoniella |
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forewing pale fuscous, underside with pale line not reaching subapical costal strigula |
Parornix anglicella |