Dendrorycter marmaroides

Dendrorycter marmaroides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Dendrorycter
Species: D. marmaroides
Binomial name
Dendrorycter marmaroides
Kumata, 1978[1]

Dendrorycter marmaroides is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from Hokkaidō island of Japan.[2]

The wingspan is 7-8.8 mm.

The larvae feed on Alnus hirsuta and Alnus japonica. They mine the stem of their host plant. The mine has the form of a long linear mine, just beneath the surface along the axis of the young stem or branch.

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