Parornix alni

Parornix alni
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Parornix
Species: P. alni
Binomial name
Parornix alni
Kumata, 1965[1]

Parornix alni is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from the Japan (Hokkaidō, Honshū) and the Russian Far East.[2]

The wingspan is 8–9 mm.

The larvae feed on Alnus hirsuta. They mine the leaves of their host plant.

References

  1. ↑ On the species of the genera Parornix Spuler and Callisto Stephens occurring in Japan, with descriptions of two new species (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae)
  2. ↑ Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)


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