Parornix polygrammella

Parornix polygrammella
Parornix polygrammella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Parornix
Species: P. polygrammella
Binomial name
Parornix polygrammella
(Wocke, 1862)[1]
Synonyms
  • Ornix polygrammella Wocke, 1862

Parornix polygrammella is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from Fennoscandia, Estonia, northern Russia and France.

The larvae feed on Betula nana. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine consists of a small, lower-surface, tentiform mine. After the larva has left the mine, it folds a leaf downwards over the midrib and consumes it up to the epidermis.[2]

Referenced

  1. ^ Fauna Europaea
  2. ^ bladmineerders.nl
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