Phycitodes albatella

Phycitodes albatella is a species of snout moth. It is found in most of Europe (except Ireland, Great Britain, Slovenia, Croatia and Ukraine),^[1] Uzbekistan^[2] and North America.^[3]

Phycitodes albatella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pyralidae
Genus:	Phycitodes
Species:	P. albatella
Binomial name
Phycitodes albatella (Ragonot, 1887)
Synonyms
Homoeosoma albatella Ragonot, 1887 Homoeosoma parvum Gerasimov, 1930 Homoeosoma pseudonimbella Bentinck, 1937 Rotruda albatella (Ragonot, 1887)

The wingspan is 15–20 mm.^[4] There are three generations per year with adults on wing from April to September.^[5]

The larvae feed on Senecio, Crepis and Solidago species, as well as Sonchus arvensis. They initially live in the upper stem and leaf-axil of their host plant, but later on the flowers within a web. Larvae of the second generation hibernate within a cocoon. Pupation takes place in another cocoon.^[6]