Phyllonorycter intermixta

Phyllonorycter intermixta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Phyllonorycter
Species: P. intermixta
Binomial name
Phyllonorycter intermixta
(Braun, 1930)

Phyllonorycter intermixta is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from Québec in Canada and Connecticut, Ohio, Rhode Island and Vermont in the United States.[1]

The larvae feed on Corylus americana. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a rather large, tentiform mine between two veins. Most of the parenchyma is consumed, with only a few patches in the center remaining.

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