Digitivalva pulicariae

Digitivalva pulicariae is a moth of the family Acrolepiidae. It is found in most of Europe, except Portugal, Fennoscandia, the Baltic region and Poland.^[1]

Digitivalva pulicariae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Acrolepiidae
Genus:	Digitivalva
Species:	D. pulicariae
Binomial name
Digitivalva pulicariae (Klimesch, 1956)
Synonyms
Acrolepia pulicariae Klimesch, 1956 Inuliphila pulicariae Digitivalva granitella sensu auctt. nec (Treitschke, 1833)

The wingspan is about 13 mm.^[2] Forewings more elongate, grey or fuscous, becoming ochreous-brown towards dorsum, more or less strigulated with blackish; several darker spots on costa posteriorly; a dark fuscous dorsal spot at 4, preceded and followed by whitish spots; one or two whitish dorsal dots towards tornus. Hindwings grey. Larva pale yellow-green; dorsal line darker.^[3]

Adults are on wing from August to, after overwintering, May of the following year.^[4]

The larvae feed on Pulicaria dysenterica. They mine the leaves of their host plant.^[5] The larvae are yellowish green with a brown head. They can be found from June to July.