Carpatolechia aenigma is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Greece, Ukraine and Russia[1] (the Ural Mountains and Lower Volga).[2]

Carpatolechia aenigma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Carpatolechia
Species:
C. aenigma
Binomial name
Carpatolechia aenigma
(Sattler, 1983)
Synonyms
  • Teleiodes aenigma Sattler, 1983

The wingspan is 10–13 mm. Adults have been recorded on wing from May to July.

The larvae have been recorded feeding on Tilia cordata and Quercus robur.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Fauna Europaea
  2. ^ Junnilainen, J. et al. 2010: The gelechiid fauna of the southern Ural Mountains, part II: list of recorded species with taxonomic notes (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Zootaxa, 2367: 1–68. Preview
  3. ^ microlepidoptera.nl Archived March 2, 2014, at the Wayback Machine