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Sweet potato leaf miner
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Bedelliidae
Genus:	Bedellia
Species:	B. somnulentella
Binomial name
Bedellia somnulentella (Zeller, 1847)
Synonyms
Lyonetia somnulentella Zeller, 1847 Bedellia orpheella Stainton, 1849 Bedellia convolvulella Fologne, 1860 Bedellia mnesileuca Meyrick, 1928 Bedellia ipomoeae Bradley, 1953 Bedellia staintoniella Clemens, 1860 Bedellia annuligera Meyrick, 1928 Bedellia autoconis Meyrick, 1930

Bedellia somnulentella, the sweet potato leaf miner, is a moth in the family Bedelliidae.

The wingspan is 8–10 mm.

The larvae feed on Calystegia pubescens, Calystegia sepium, Convolvulus althaeoides, Convolvulus arvensis, Convolvulus siculus, Convolvulus tricolour, Ipomoea batatas and Ipomoea purpurea. They mine the leaves of their host plant.

Originally from Asia, where its food plants are found, it has reached a nearly cosmopolitan distribution and has been recorded from Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, southern Kazakhstan, Kirgizia, Uzbekistan, nearly all of Europe, the Middle East, Africa, India, Japan, North America, Australia, New Zealand and Oceania.

• A Review of the Lyonetiid Moths (Lepidoptera, Lyonetiidae): II. The Subfamilies Lyonetiinae and Bedelliinae
• bladmineerders.nl
• UKmoths
• Media related to Bedellia somnulentella at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Bedellia somnulentella at Wikispecies

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