Depressariidae

32.013 Thistle Buff Agonopterix carduella (Hübner, [1817])

Notable B

Similar species:

Forewing: 6.5 to 8mm

Habitats: Dry grassland, embankments and verges

Habits: The moth comes to light.

Foodplant: The larva mines a large, elongate, pale upper-surface blotch, extending on both sides of the mid-rib of a leaf of SpearThistle, Creeping Thistle, Melancholy Thistle, burdocks and Common Knapweed. It later feeds in a web under a leaf. On Common Knapweed it rolls the leaf downwards. It pupates in the earth or in the leaf litter.