Depressariidae

32.014 Cornish Buff Agonopterix kutznetzovi Lvovsky, 1983

pRDB1

Similar species:

Forewing: 7 to 9.5mm

Habitats: Damp pasture and water meadows.

Habits: The moth flies on warm afternoons in the autumn and in the evening in the spring. It comes to light.

Foodplant: The larva at first mines a short brown gallery in a leaf of Saw-wort, but soon leaves this to feed in a web under a leaf and later in a leaf that is spun upwards to form a pod. It pupates in the leaf litter.