Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Gracillariidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Phyllonorycter | |
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Scientific name Phyllonorycter stettinensis Similar Phyllonorycter nicellii, Phyllonorycter oxyacanthae, Phyllonorycter coryli, Phyllonorycter joannisi, Phyllonorycter ulmifoliella | ||
Phyllonorycter stettinensis is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is found from Scandinavia and Finland to the Pyrenees, Corsica, Italy and Bulgaria and from Great Britain to Russia.
The wingspan is 6.5-7.5 mm. There are two generations per year with adults on wing in May and again in August.
The larvae feed on Alnus cordata, Alnus glutinosa and Alnus incana. They mine the leaves of their host plant. They create an upper-surface, fairly small, almost flat tentiform mine with a yellow green colour. The mine has a single, fairly strong fold. The mine is mostly positioned over a lateral vein. The frass is deposited in a clump in a corner of the mine.
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