Paranthrene diaphana

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Paranthrene diaphana
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sesiidae
Genus: Paranthrene
Species:
P. diaphana
Binomial name
Paranthrene diaphana
Dalla Torre & Strand, 1925 [1]

Paranthrene diaphana is a moth of the family Sesiidae. It is found in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro, the Republic of Macedonia and Bulgaria, [2] as well as Turkey, Azerbaijan and Iran.

The larvae feed on Populus and Salix species [3] (including Salix alba ). They mine the trunks of their host plant. Adult females preferably deposit their eggs in injured parts of the host tree.

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References

  1. Checklist of the Sesiidae of the World
  2. Fauna Europaea
  3. "A Contribution to the Knowledge of the Sesiidae of Turkey (Lepidoptera)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2012-04-18.