Phylloporia bistrigella

Phylloporia bistrigella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Incurvariidae
Genus:	Phylloporia
Species:	P. bistrigella
Binomial name
	Phylloporia bistrigella; (Haworth, 1828)
Synonyms
	Tinea bistrigella Haworth, 1828; Phylloporia abalienella (Zetterstedt, 1840) ; Phylloporia subammanella (Stainton, 1849) ; Phylloporia dilorella (Herrich-Schäffer, 1851) ; Phylloporia labradorella (Clemens, 1864) ; Phylloporia labradoriella (Walsingham, 1888) (missp.); Phylloporia aureovireus (Dietz, 1905) ;

Phylloporia bistrigella is a moth of the Incurvariidae family. It is found in western, northern and central Europe and north-eastern North America.

The wingspan is 7–9 mm.

The larvae feed on Betula species. They mine the leaves of their host plant, usually encircling a good part of the leaf, and finishing in a whitish blotch with scattered frass. It then cuts out an oval case from this position and drops to the ground. The leaf area enclosed within the mine becomes paler and vacated mines are quite distinctive.

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