Perittia
Encyclopedia
Perittia is a genus of moth
s of the Elachistidae
family.
Moth
A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth , with thousands of species yet to be described...
s of the Elachistidae
Elachistidae
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family.
Species
- Perittia andoi Inoue et al, 1982
- Perittia antaugesPerittia antaugesPerittia antauges is a moth of the Elachistidae family. It is found in Western Australia.The wingspan is 8.8-10.9 mm for males. The forewings are creamy white and the hindwings are pale grey....
Kaila, 2011 - Perittia bilobaPerittia bilobaPerittia biloba is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in Tadzhikistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan....
Sruoga, 1990 - Perittia bullatella Chrétien, 1915
- Perittia bystropogonis Walsingham, 1908
- Perittia carlinellaPerittia carlinellaPerittia carlinella is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found on the Canary Islands and Madeira.The wingspan is 10-11 mm. The forewings are white, dusted with pale greyish brown scales. The hindwings are grey....
(Walsingham, 1908) - Perittia cinereipunctella Turati, 1930
- Perittia cygnodiella (Busck, 1921)
- Perittia dalerisPerittia dalerisPerittia daleris is a moth of the Elachistidae family. It is found in Western Australia.The wingspan is 9.8-10.5 mm for males. The ground colour of the forewings is pale bluish grey and the hindwings are grey....
Kaila, 2011 - Perittia derogaPerittia derogaPerittia deroga is a moth of the Elachistidae family. It is found in New South Wales.The wingspan is about 8.8 mm for males. The forewings are creamy white and the hindwings are pale grey....
Kaila, 2011 - Perittia echiellaPerittia echiellaPerittia echiella is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found on the Iberian Peninsula, Sardinia and Sicily and in Greece.The wingspan is about 11 mm....
(Joannis, 1902) - Perittia eremonoma (A.F. Braun, 1948)
- Perittia ernsti Kaila, 2000
- Perittia falciferella Sruoga & J. de Prins, 2009
- Perittia farinellaPerittia farinellaPerittia farinella is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in most of Europe .The wingspan is 12-14 mm....
(Thunberg, 1794) - Perittia fraudatrix Kaila, 2000
- Perittia gnoma Sruoga & J. de Prins, 2009
- Perittia granadensisPerittia granadensisPerittia granadensis is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in Spain....
(Traugott-Olsen, 1995) - Perittia herrichiellaPerittia herrichiellaPerittia herrichiella is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found from Sweden and Finland to the Pyrenees and Italy and from France to the Baltic region and Romania. It has also been recorded from North America, including New York, Ontario, Indiana and Michigan...
(Herrich-Schäffer, 1855) - Perittia huemeriPerittia huemeriPerittia huemeri is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in Hungary, Croatia and Turkey....
(Traugott-Olsen, 1990) - Perittia infumata (Meyrick, 1914) (previously in Phthinostoma)
- Perittia junnilaisellaPerittia junnilaisellaPerittia junnilaisella is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in Turkey....
Kaila, 2009 - Perittia karadaghellaPerittia karadaghellaPerittia karadaghella is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in Ukraine and Turkey....
Sinev & Budashkin, 1991 - Perittia lavandulae Walsingham, 1908
- Perittia loniceraePerittia loniceraeThe Honeysuckle Leaf Miner is a moth of the Elachistidae family. It was first discovered in Hawaii in 1949. It was later found in Japan in 1982,...
(Zimmerman and Bradley, 1950) - Perittia mastodon Kaila, 2000
- Perittia minitaurellaPerittia minitaurellaPerittia minitaurella is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in Greece ....
Kaila, 2009 - Perittia morgana Kaila, 2000
- Perittia mucronataPerittia mucronataPerittia mucronata is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in Greece....
(Parenti, 2001) - Perittia nephele Kaila, 2000
- Perittia obscurepunctellaPerittia obscurepunctellaPerittia obscurepunctella is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found from Sweden and Finland to the Pyrenees and Slovakia and from Ireland to the Baltic region and Poland.The wingspan is 8-10 mm. Adults are on wing from April to June....
(Stainton, 1848) - Perittia olelella Westwood in Wood, 1854
- Perittia pachyzona (Meyrick, 1921) (previously in Phthinostoma)
- Perittia passula Kaila, 1995
- Perittia patagonica Kaila, 2000
- Perittia piperatellaPerittia piperatellaPerittia piperatella is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found on the Iberian Peninsula.The wingspan is 8.5-10 mm.The larvae feed on Cistus ladanifer. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a large, strongly puckered, tentiform mine at the leaf margin and usually...
(Staudinger, 1859) - Perittia punatensis Kaila, 2000
- Perittia ramona Kaila, 2000
- Perittia ravidaPerittia ravidaPerittia ravida is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in Turkey and Greece....
Kaila, 2009 - Perittia regina Kaila, 2000
- Perittia sibiricaPerittia sibiricaPerittia sibirica is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in Russia .The larvae feed on Lonicera tatarica....
Sinev, 1992 - Perittia smaragdophanes (Meyrick, 1932)
- Perittia spatulata Sruoga & J. de Prins, 2009
- Perittia spermatopis (Meyrick, 1933)
- Perittia tantilla Sruoga & J. de Prins, 2009
- Perittia tucumana Kaila, 2000
- Perittia weberellaPerittia weberellaPerittia weberella is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in Switzerland.There are probably two generations per year.The larvae feed on Lonicera xylosteum. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a corridor, abruptly widening into a blotch...
Whitebread, 1984