| Phyllonorycter viminetorum | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gracillariidae |
| Genus: | Phyllonorycter |
| Species: | P. viminetorum
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| Phyllonorycter viminetorum | |
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Phyllonorycter viminetorum is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is found from Latvia to the Pyrenees and Italy and from Ireland to Ukraine.
The wingspan is 8–9 mm.2 The antennae with the apex whitish. Forewings golden-brown, sprinkled with dark fuscous; a slender white median streak from base to near middle; a triangular white dorsal spot at 1/3 reaching basal streak; an angulated sometimes interrupted median fascia, three ill-defined posterior costal and two dorsal spots white, anteriorly dark margined; an elongate blackish apical dot. Hindwings are dark grey. The larva is pale yellowish; dorsal line greenish; head pale brown.34
The larvae feed on Salix viminalis. They mine the leaves of their host plant.5
References
References
- Fauna Europaea
- microlepidoptera.nl
- Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London pdf This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Keys and description
- 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
- bladmineerders.nl