Female

Ovipositing on Yponomeuta padella

Length: 4.5-10mm;
Forewing Length: 3.4-7.7mm

Egg	Larva	Pupa	Adult
?	?	?	September - July (Earliest: 12.5)

Biotopes:	Hedge Rows	Spruce Forest Edge
Food: (Larva)	Gonepteryx rhamni Pupa	Pieris brassicae	Vanessa cardui Pupa	Several Erebidae Pupae
	Several Geometridae Pupae	Several Gracillariidae Pupae	Several Noctuidae Pupae	Many Tortricidae
	Several Yponomeutidae	Euthrix potatoria Pupa	Malacosoma neustria Pupa	Agonopterix assimilella Pupa
	Agonopterix subpropinquella Pupa	Coleophora serratella Pupa	Coleophora vacciniella Pupa	Mompha conturbatella Pupa
	Mompha epilobiella Pupa	Carcina quercana Pupa	Plutella xylostella Pupa	Psyche casta Pupa
Possible Food: (Larva)	Lycaenidae Pupae	Nymphalidae Pupae	Argyresthiidae Pupae	Choreutidae Pupae
	Other Coleophoridae Pupae	Other Elachistidae Pupae	Other Erebidae Pupae	Gelechiidae Pupae
	Other Geometridae Pupae	Other Gracillariidae Pupae	Other Lasiocampidae Pupae	Other Noctuidae Pupae
	Nolidae Pupae	Psychidae Pupae	Pterophoridae Pupae	Pyralidae Pupae
	Other Tortricidae	Other Yponomeutidae Pupae	Ypsolophidae Pupae
	Zygaenidae Pupae
Food: (Adult)	Heracleum sphondylium Nectar	Tanacetum vulgare Nectar

Nature Spot: Itoplectis maculator

Pictures © 2003, 2006 J.K. Lindsey

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