Phyllonorycter esperella

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Phyllonorycter esperella
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Phyllonorycter
Species:
P. esperella
Binomial name
Phyllonorycter esperella
(Goeze, 1783) [1]
Synonyms
  • Tinea esperellaGoeze, 1783
  • Lithocolletis carpinicolellaStainton, 1851
  • Tinea quinnataFourcroy, 1785

Phyllonorycter esperella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is found from Sweden to the Pyrenees, Italy and Greece and from Great Britain to Ukraine.

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Larva
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Damage
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Damage

The wingspan is 7–9 mm. Adults are on wing in May and August in two generations in western Europe.

The larvae feed on Carpinus betulus and Ostrya carpinifolia . They mine the leaves of their host plant. They create an upper-surface tentiform mine. At first, the mine is nearly round, silvery, and flat, and is centred over a side vein. Later, the mine becomes strongly contracted and sometimes almost doubles the leaf.

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