Bryotropha domestica

Bryotropha domestica
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Bryotropha
Species:	B. domestica
Binomial name
	Bryotropha domestica; (Haworth, 1828)
Synonyms
	Recurvaria domestica Haworth, 1828; Gelechia domesticella Doubleday, 1859; Lita punctata Staudinger in Kalchberg, 1876; Gelechia domestica var. salmonis Walsingham, 1908; Bryotropha algiricella Chrétien, 1917;

Bryotropha domestica is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found from Ireland to Germany, Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria and from the Benelux to the Iberian Peninsula, Sicily, Crete and Cyprus. It is also found in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, the Middle East, Turkmenistan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

The wingspan is 12–13 mm.^[2] ^[3] Adults are on wing from mid-May to early August in one generation per year.^[4]

References

^ Fauna Europaea
^ microlepidoptera.nl Archived May 1, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
^ Karsholt, Ole & Twan Rutten, 2005, the genus Bryotropha Heinemann in the western palaearctic (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae), Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 148: 77-207. Abstract and full article: [1]
^ UKmoths

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