Blastobasis lacticolella
{{Short description|Moth species in genus Blastobasis}}
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| taxon = Blastobasis lacticolella
| authority = Rebel, 1939/1940
| synonyms = Blastobasis decolorella auct.
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Blastobasis lacticolella is a species of moth of the family Blastobasidae. It is endemic to Madeira but has been introduced to western Europe and is now reported from the Netherlands, Great Britain, Ireland, and Sweden. It is widespread in southern England.
Description
The wingspan is 15–23 mm. Adults are on wing from March to October (from May to June and again in autumn in the UK).
Larvae feed in a silken gallery, on a wide variety of unrelated food types, including leaf-litter, vegetation and stored products, such as:{{cite web |last1=Kimber |first1=Ian |title=41.003 BF874 Blastobasis lacticolella Rebel, 1940 |url=https://ukmoths.org.uk/species/blastobasis-lacticolella/ |access-date=7 May 2025 |work=UKmoths}}{{cite book |last1=Sterling |first1=Phil |last2=Parsons |first2=Mark |last3=Lewington |first3=Richard |author3-link=Richard Lewington (artist) |title=Field Guide to the Micro moths of Great Britain and Ireland |date=2012 |publisher=British Wildlife Publishing |location=Milton on Stour |isbn=978-0-9564902-1-6 |page=125}}
References
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{{cite web |url=https://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:434551 |title=Blastobasis lacticolella Rebel, 1940 |work=Fauna Europaea |year=2011 |access-date=7 May 2025 }}
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Category:Arthropods of Madeira
Category:Endemic fauna of Madeira
Category:Moths described in 1940
Category:Taxa named by Hans Rebel
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