Naming
Blastodacna bicristatella (Chambers, 1875)Gelechia bicristatella Chambers, 1875
Blastodacna curvilineella (misapplied name, see Explanation of Names below)
Explanation of Names
Wellhouse in 1919 erroneously applied the name "B. curvilineella Chambers [sic]" to what was actually Blastodacna bicristatella (Chambers, 1875) in the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Memoir #56 in 1922: The Insect Fauna of the Genus Crataegus. He describes the caterpillar. The error was carried forward by Forbes in 1920 and later by Hodges in 1966. Blastodacna curvilineella is not a valid species and specimens identified as that species, such as those at BOLD, usually pertain to Blastodacna bicristatella.
Food
Larvae feed in hawthorn fruits (Crataegus)References:
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