Blastobasis vittata

Blastobasis vittata is a moth of the family Blastobasidae. It was thought to be endemic to Madeira^[1] but is now known to inhabit the Netherlands, France, the Channel Islands, England and Northern Ireland.^[2][3][4]

Blastobasis vittata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Blastobasidae
Genus:	Blastobasis
Species:	B. vittata
Binomial name
Blastobasis vittata (Wollaston, 1858)
Synonyms
Laverna vittata Wollaston, 1858 Blastobasis lignea Walsingham, 1894 Blastobasis flavescentella Rebel, 1940

Blastobasis vittata

Taxonomy

The name Blastobasis lignea was for a time used for records now identified as Blastobasis adustella.^[1] Karsholt & Sinev's taxonomic revision in 2004 reclassified Walsingham's original B. lignea specimen as B. vittata, making lignea properly the junior synonym of vittata. B. adustella was originally described by Walsingham as a variety of B. lignea.^[1]