Phyllonorycter cerasinella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Phyllonorycter
Species:
P. cerasinella
Binomial name
Phyllonorycter cerasinella
(Reutti, 1852)
Synonyms
  • Lithocolletis cerasinella Reutti, 1852[1]

Phyllonorycter cerasinella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is found from all of Germany to the Iberian Peninsula, the Alps and Albania and from France to Ukraine and Bulgaria.

The larvae feed on Chamaespartium sagittale. They mine the leaves of their host plant. They create a very long, strongly folded and inflated, tentiform mine in the broad wings along the stem.[2]

References

  1. Fauna Europaea
  2. "bladmineerders.nl". Archived from the original on 2012-08-28. Retrieved 2010-10-19.


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