Phyllonorycter comparella

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Phyllonorycter comparella
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Phyllonorycter
Species:
P. comparella
Binomial name
Phyllonorycter comparella
(Duponchel, 1843)
Synonyms
  • Elachista comparellaDuponchel, 1843
  • Lithocolletis cerrutiellaHartig, 1952

Phyllonorycter comparella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is found from Germany and the Baltic States to Spain, Sardinia, Sicily, Hungary and Bulgaria and from Great Britain to central and southern Russia.

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Damage
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Larva

The wingspan is about 8 mm.

The larvae feed on Populus alba , Populus canescens and sometimes Populus nigra . They mine the leaves of their host plant. They create an oval, lower-surface tentiform mine. The lower epidermis has no recognisable folds. The frass is heaped in an angle of the mine. The pupa is found in a barely recognisable flimsy cocoon.


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