Phyllonorycter salictella

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Phyllonorycter salictella
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Phyllonorycter
Species:
P. salictella
Binomial name
Phyllonorycter salictella
(Zeller, 1846) [1]
Synonyms
  • Argyromiges viminiellaSircom, 1848
  • Lithocolletis salictellaZeller, 1846

Phyllonorycter salictella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from all of Europe (except the Balkan Peninsula and the Mediterranean islands), east to Russia and Japan.

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Mined leaf of Salix caprea
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Larva

The wingspan is 7–9 mm. The forewings are shining ochreous, sometimes fuscous-tinged; a median streak from base to near middle, four costal and three dorsal wedge-shaped spots obscure whitish-ochreous, ill-defined and sometimes very indistinct, first dorsal long; a blackish apical strigula. Hindwings are grey. The larva is pale yellowish; dorsal line dark grey; head pale brown. [2] [3]

There are two generations per year with adults on wing in May and June and again in August. [4]

The larvae feed on Salix alba , Salix babylonica , Salix daphnoides , Salix × fragilis , Salix elaeagnos (syn. S. incana [Schrank] [5] ), Salix purpurea , Salix triandra and Salix viminalis . They mine the leaves of their host plant. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ "Phyllonorycter salictella (Zeller, 1846)". Fauna Europaea. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
  2. ↑ Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London pdf PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain . Keys and description
  3. ↑ Kuznetsov V.I., 1990 Gracillariidae ; in G.S. Medvedev (ed.): Keys to the insects of the europaean part of the USSR, Vol.IV: Lepidoptera, part 2 (english translation), Oxonian Press Pvt.Ltd., New Dehli, 1987
  4. ↑ Kimber, Ian. "15.054 BF333 Phyllonorycter viminiella (Sircom, 1848)". Ukmoths. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
  5. ↑ Kew Science. "Salix eleagnos (Scop.)". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  6. ↑ Ellis, W N. "Phyllonorycter salictella (Zeller, 1846)". Plant Parasites of Europe. Retrieved 29 September 2019.



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