Hodgesiella rebeli is a moth in the family Cosmopterigidae. It is found in Italy, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, North Macedonia, Albania and Greece.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Cosmopterigidae |
| Genus: | Hodgesiella |
| Species: | H. rebeli
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| Binomial name | |
| Hodgesiella rebeli (Krone, 1905)
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The wingspan is 11–12 mm. The ground colour of the forewings is black with three white lines. The hindwings are whitish grey.[2]
The larvae feed on Convolvulus althaeoides, Convolvulus althaeoides tenuissimus and Convolvulus cantabrica. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine starts as a narrow gallery where all the frass is concentrated. This narrow area quickly widens into a large blotch. The larvae create silk, which they deposit in the mine, causing some length folds to develop.[3] The larvae can be found in May.
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- ^ Fauna Europaea
- ^ Neues über Microlepidopteren. — Jahresbericht des Wiener Entomologischen Vereins 16: 83-85
- ^ "bladmineerders.nl". Archived from the original on 2012-09-26. Retrieved 2011-08-16.