Trefoil Blister Moth

Leucoptera lotella

Leucoptera lotella is a moth in the Lyonetiidae family. It is found from Denmark to Portugal, Italy and Croatia, and from Great Britain to Poland and Hungary. External image The wingspan is 5–6 mm. The forewings are light shining metallic grey; apical half beyond an oblique line orange, enclosing two white dark -edged costal spots, and a post-tornal pale golden spot partly black-edged anteriorly and followed by a coppery black apical spot; a black vertical bar in cilia at apex, a bar before and two diverging bars beyond it, penultimate directed upwards. Hindwings are rather dark grey. The larva is yellow-whitish; head and plate of 2 pale brown

Scientific name

Leucoptera lotella

Family

Lyonetiidae