Scrobipalpa pauperella

Scrobipalpa pauperella is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Hermann von Heinemann in 1870. It is found in Great Britain, Luxembourg, Spain, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Russia, Sweden, Finland, Afghanistan, Transbaikal^[1][2] and China (Gansu, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia).^[3]

Scrobipalpa pauperella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Scrobipalpa
Species:	S. pauperella
Binomial name
Scrobipalpa pauperella (Heinemann, 1870)
Synonyms
Lita pauperella Heinemann, 1870 Scrobipalpa (Euscrobipalpa) klimeschi Povolný, 1967

The wingspan is 10–13 mm (0.39–0.51 in).^[4]

The larvae feed on Centaurea scabiosa, Petasites albus, Serratula tinctoria Cirsium palustre and Cirsium helenioides. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine on Cirsium is thought to resemble the mines of Scrobipalpa acuminatella. The larvae are probably stem borers on Centaurea.^[5]