Phyllonorycter tenerella
| Phyllonorycter tenerella | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gracillariidae |
| Genus: | Phyllonorycter |
| Species: | P. tenerella |
| Binomial name | |
| Phyllonorycter tenerella (Joannis, 1915)[1] | |
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Phyllonorycter tenerella is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is found from Sweden to the Pyrenees, Italy and Bulgaria and from Great Britain to north-western Russia and Ukraine.
Damage
The wingspan is 6–8 mm. There are two generations per year with adults on wing in May and again from July to August.[2]
The larvae feed on Carpinus betulus and Ostrya carpinifolia. They mine the leaves of their host plant. They create a narrow, finally tubular lower-surface mine between two side veins. The lower epidermis has one strong fold. The pupa is made in a flimsy cocoon in a corner of the mine. The frass is deposited in the opposite corner. In Ostrya, the mine is shorter and less constrained by the lateral veins.[3]
References
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