Parornix carpinella
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Parornix carpinella | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Gracillariidae |
Genus: | Parornix |
Species: | P. carpinella
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Binomial name | |
Parornix carpinella | |
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Parornix carpinella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is found from Sweden to the Pyrenees, Italy and Greece and from Great Britain to Russia.
The larvae feed on Acer platanoides, Acer pseudoplatanus, Carpinus betulus, Carpinus orientalis and Ostrya carpinifolia. They mine the leaves of their host plant.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Fauna Europaea
- ^ microlepidoptera.nl Archived 2011-02-12 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "bladmineerders.nl". Archived from the original on 2012-07-10. Retrieved 2010-11-03.