Gelechia senticetella

Gelechia senticetella, the cypress groundling, is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Otto Staudinger in 1859. It is found in most of Europe, including Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, North Macedonia, Sicily, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland and Ukraine. It is thought to be an introduced species in Great Britain.

Gelechia senticetella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Gelechia
Species:	G. senticetella
Binomial name
Gelechia senticetella (Staudinger, 1859)[1]
Synonyms
Nothris senticetella Staudinger, 1859 Tinea senticetella Hypsolophus obscuripennis Frey, 1880 Gelechia limitanella Rebel, 1904 Phthorimaea nigrostriella Zerny, 1935 Nothris obscuripennis f. melanotica Burmann, 1950 Nothris obscuripennis f. albicans Burmann, 1950

The wingspan is 10-13.5 mm.^[2] Adults have been recorded on wing from July to August.^[3]

The larvae feed on Juniperus communis, other Juniperus species and Thuja, Chaemocyparis and Cupressus species. They mine the leaves of their host plant, later living within a silken tube or tent.^[4]