Subspecies
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No subspecies are recognized.
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Synonyms
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Endotricha flammealis (Denis et Schiffermüller, 1775)
Endotricha flameatus (Haworth, 1809)
Endotricha adustalis (Turati, 1905) (excluded name under Article 1.3.4.)
Endotricha lutealis (Turati, 1905) (excluded name under Article 1.3.4.)
Endotricha carnealis (De Lattin, 1951)
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Identification
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Wing
span 17 - 23 mm. Ground color of forewing reddish or yellowish brown or
grey with lighter ante- and postmedian lines and a white patch on the
fringes near the apex. The imagines have a chracteristic resting posture
with their head and thorax pushed up.
Larva uniformly brown.
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Distribution
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Widely distributed and common. Europe (not in the north), north Africa, western Asia. In Germany recorded from all Bundesländer.
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Biology
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Habitat:
Forests and bushes. Flight season May to September. Larva lives in a
silken chambered web on the underside of leaves, mainly of oaks and
willows, but also of many other plants in August and September. In
October the larvae produce silk tubes on the ground (feeding on rotting
leaves) and later pupate on the ground in a oval cocoon camouflaged with
sand grains and often attached with silk to a dead leaf.
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Specimen photographed in Frankfurt am Main (Hessen) on August 23, 2014.
Specimen photographed in Frankfurt am Main (Hessen) on August 7, 2011.
Specimen photographed on Usedom Island (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) on August 4, 2009.
Specimen photographed on Usedom Island (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) on August 4, 2009.
Specimen photographed on Usedom Island (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) on August 4, 2009.
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