Phyllonorycter klimeschiella
Phyllonorycter klimeschiella | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Gracillariidae |
Genus: | Phyllonorycter |
Species: | P. klimeschiella |
Binomial name | |
Phyllonorycter klimeschiella (Deschka, 1970)[1] | |
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Phyllonorycter klimeschiella is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from the Canary Islands.
The larvae feed on Arbutus canariensis. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine starts as a lower-surface epidermal corridor along the midrib. Later, it becomes a tentiform mine with one Y-shaped fold. The frass is mostly scattered throughout the mine, or sometimes deposited in a clump. The roof of the mine is completely eaten out. Pupation takes place within the mine in a cocoon covered with frass.[2]
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