Phyllonorycter fraxinella
| Phyllonorycter fraxinella | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gracillariidae |
| Genus: | Phyllonorycter |
| Species: | P. fraxinella
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| Phyllonorycter fraxinella | |
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Phyllonorycter fraxinella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is found from Germany and Poland to Sicily and Greece and from France to southern Russia.
The larvae feed on Genista germanica and Genista tinctoria. They mine the leaves of their host plant. They create a strongly inflated and folded, lower-surface, tentifrom mine.[2]
References
- ^ Fauna Europaea
- ^ "bladmineerders.nl". Archived from the original on 2012-08-31. Retrieved 2010-10-21.
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