Apodia bifractella

Apodia bifractella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in most of Europe, as well as Turkey, the Caucasus and North Africa.^[2]

A sprig of Inula conyza (1b), and seeds fastened together and bored by the larva (1b*)

Larva

Apodia bifractella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Apodia
Species:	A. bifractella
Binomial name
Apodia bifractella (Duponchel, 1843)[1]
Synonyms
Lita bifractella Duponchel, 1843

The wingspan is 9–12 mm. The head and palpi are orange, the face sometimes whitish. The forewings are dark fuscous, sprinkled with grey-whitish, dorsally more or less mixed with ferruginous orange usually with a more distinct small tornal orange mark and an ill-defined ochreous-whitish or pale orange costal spot beyond it, sometimes finely connected . Veins 7 and 8 arise out of vein 6. The hindwings are grey. Larva almost apodal, stout, whitish.^[3][4][5][6]

Adults are on wing from July to August.^[7]

The larvae feed on Pulicaria dysenterica, Inula conyzae and Aster tripolium.