Monochroa palustrellus
Species of moth
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Monochroa palustrellus, the wainscot neb, is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in from western, central and northern Europe to the Ural Mountains and southern Siberia.[2] The habitat consists of waste ground, dry pastures and sand-dunes.[3]
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Monochroa |
| Species: | M. palustrellus |
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| Monochroa palustrellus (Douglas, 1850)[1] | |
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The wingspan is 17–19 mm.[4][5] The forewings pale brown, veins more or less marked with whitish streaks, interneural spaces mixed with blackish; stigmata blackish, whitish-edged, plical and first discal elongate, second discal roundish. Hindwings light grey.[6][7][8][9]
Adults are on wing from late June to August in one generation per year.[10]
The larvae feed on Rumex species, including Rumex crispus, Rumex aquaticus and Rumex hydrolapathum.
