Marmara fulgidella
Marmara fulgidella | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Gracillariidae |
Genus: | Marmara |
Species: | M. fulgidella |
Binomial name | |
Marmara fulgidella (Clemens, 1860) | |
Marmara fulgidella is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from the United States (including Pennsylvania).[1]
The larvae feed on Castanea and Quercus species, including Quercus prinus. They mine trunks and branches of their host plant. The mine has the form of a long winding gallery just under the epidermis of young trunks and branches.
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