Phyllonorycter cytisifoliae

Phyllonorycter cytisifoliae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Phyllonorycter
Species: P. cytisifoliae
Binomial name
Phyllonorycter cytisifoliae
(M. Hering, 1927)[1]
Synonyms
  • Lithocolletis cytisifoliae M. Hering, 1927

Phyllonorycter cytisifoliae is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from the Canary Islands.

The larvae feed on Chamaecytisus proliferus. They mine the leaves of their host plant. They create small, upper-surface, tentifom mine. The mine is only little folded and hardly contracts the leaflet. Pupation takes place inside the mine.[2]

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