Apodia bifractella

Apodia bifractella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae.

It is found in most of Europe, as well as Turkey, the Caucasus and North Africa.

The forewings are dark fuscous, sprinkled with grey-whitish, dorsally more or less mixed with ferruginous orange usually with a more distinct small tornal orange mark and an ill-defined ochreous-whitish or pale orange costal spot beyond it, sometimes finely connected .

[7] The larvae feed on Pulicaria dysenterica, Inula conyzae and Aster tripolium.

This article on a moth of the subfamily Anomologinae is a stub.

A sprig of Inula conyza (1b), and seeds fastened together and bored by the larva (1b*)
Larva