Cosmardia moritzella explained

Cosmardia moritzella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in Portugal, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Belarus, Hungary, Romania, Greece, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Norway, Ukraine and Russia^[1] (Ural Mountains, Altai Mountains and south-western Siberia).^[2]

The wingspan is 13–14 mm.^[3]

The larvae feed on Silene latifolia and Silene dioica.^[4]

Notes and References

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20130929091437/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=437540 Fauna Europaea
2. et al. 2010: The gelechiid fauna of the southern Ural Mountains, part II: list of recorded species with taxonomic notes (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Zootaxa, 2367: 1–68. Preview
3. http://wibe.ath.cx/Lepidoptera/Gelechiidae/Cosmardia/moritzella/Cosmardia%20moritzella.htm wibe.ath.cx
4. http://www.lepiforum.de/lepiwiki.pl?Cosmardia_moritzella lepiforum.de