Parornix mixta

Parornix mixta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Parornix
Species: P. mixta
Binomial name
Parornix mixta
(Triberti, 1980)[1]
Synonyms
  • Callisto mixta Triberti, 1980

Parornix mixta is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from Italy, Romania, Slovakia, former Yugoslavia and Transbaikalia in Russia.[2]

The larvae feed on Spiraea media and Spiraea x vanhouttei. They probably mine the leaves of their host plant.

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