Marmara opuntiella

Marmara opuntiella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gracillariidae
Genus:	Marmara
Species:	M. opuntiella
Binomial name
Marmara opuntiella Busck, 1907

Marmara opuntiella is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from the United States (Texas) and Mexico.^[1] There are records of similar larvae with identical habits from Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Peru and Venezuela, and these may also refer to this species.

The larvae feed on Nopalea and Opuntia species. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a long winding serpentine mine just under the epidermis, sometimes widened out into irregular blotches

References

1. ^ Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)

External links

• Marmara at microleps.org

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