Phyllonorycter cerasinella
Phyllonorycter cerasinella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is found from all of Germany to the Iberian Peninsula, the Alps and Albania and from France to Ukraine and Bulgaria.
| Phyllonorycter cerasinella | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gracillariidae |
| Genus: | Phyllonorycter |
| Species: | P. cerasinella |
| Binomial name | |
| Phyllonorycter cerasinella (Reutti, 1852) | |
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The larvae feed on Chamaespartium sagittale. They mine the leaves of their host plant. They create a very long, strongly folded and inflated, tentiform mine in the broad wings along the stem.[2]
References
- Fauna Europaea
- "bladmineerders.nl". Archived from the original on 2012-08-28. Retrieved 2010-10-19.
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