Phyllonorycter fraxinella

Phyllonorycter fraxinella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is found from Germany and Poland to Sicily and Greece and from France to southern Russia.

Phyllonorycter fraxinella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Infraorder:
Heteroneura
Family:
Gracillariidae
Genus:
Phyllonorycter
Species:
P. fraxinella
Binomial name
Phyllonorycter fraxinella
(Zeller, 1846)[1]
Synonyms
  • Lithocolletis fraxinella Zeller, 1846

The larvae feed on Genista germanica and Genista tinctoria. They mine the leaves of their host plant. They create a strongly inflated and folded, lower-surface, tentifrom mine.[2]

References
  1. Fauna Europaea
  2. bladmineerders.nl


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