Scythris limbella

Scythris limbella is a moth of the family Scythrididae first described by the Danish zoologist Johan Christian Fabricius. It is found in Asia and Europe.

Scythris limbella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Scythrididae
Genus:	Scythris
Species:	S. limbella
Binomial name
Scythris limbella (Fabricius, 1775) [1]
Synonyms
List Tinea limbella Fabricius, 1775 Tinea variella Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775 Tinea quadriguttella Thunberg, 1794 Tinea tristella Hübner, [1796] Astyages cylindrella Stephens, 1834 Röslerstammia quadrigutella Bruand, 1850 Butalis chenopodiella f. obscura Staudinger, 1871

Description

The wingspan is about 15 mm. Adults are on wing from June to September, possibly in two generations.^[2] The larvae feed on the shoots and flowers of goosefoots (Chenopodium species) and orache (Atriplex species) in a web.

Distribution

It is found in most of Europe (except Iceland, Ireland, and part of the Balkan Peninsula and Ukraine), east into Russia and Iran (from Golestan to Farsi). It is an introduced species in the north-eastern Nearctic region.^{[clarification needed][3][4]}