Kessleria saxifragae

Kessleria saxifragae is a moth of the family Yponomeutidae.

It is widespread in Europe (including Ireland, Scotland, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the French mainland, Germany, the Italian mainland, Macedonia, Poland, Slovakia, the Spanish mainland, Switzerland, Romania and former Yugoslavia) and is also recorded from the Levant.

Forewings are white, sprinkled with pale brownish; four longitudinal series of black dots, uppermost only on anterior half; a curved oblique dark brown streak extending from 1/3 of dorsum to middle of disc; an indistinct often interrupted longitudinal brownish suffusion from extremity of this to apex of wing; a black subbasal line in cilia round apex, reaching tornus.

[1] Adults are on wing from the beginning of June to the end of August.

This article on a moth of the family Yponomeutidae is a stub.

A shoot of Saxifraga aizoon with larval web
Larva