Phyllonorycter apicinigrella

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Phyllonorycter apicinigrella
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Phyllonorycter
Species:
P. apicinigrella
Binomial name
Phyllonorycter apicinigrella
(Braun, 1908) [1]
Synonyms
  • Lithocolletis apicinigrellaBraun, 1908

Phyllonorycter apicinigrella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is found along the western coast of the United States from San Luis Obispo County, California, north to British Columbia, Canada. [1] [2]

The length of the forewings is 2.7-3.8 mm. Adults are on wing in May and from mid-June to mid-September. There are either two or three generations per year.

The larvae feed on Salix species, including Salix lasiandra and Salix sitchensis species. They mine the leaves of their host plant.

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References

  1. 1 2 Donald R. Davis (2001). "Biology and Systematics of the North American Phyllonorycter Leafminers on Salicaceae, with a Synoptical Catalogue of the Palearctic Species Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae)". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology (614): 1–89. doi:10.5479/SI.00810282.614. ISSN   0081-0282. Wikidata   Q99661311.
  2. Gregory R. Pohl; Jean-François Landry; Christian Schmidt; et al. (2018). Annotated checklist of the moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Series Faunistica. Vol. 118. ISBN   978-954-642-909-4. ISSN   1312-0174. Wikidata   Q97158808.