Phyllonorycter cerasinella

Phyllonorycter cerasinella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is found from all of Germany to the Iberian Peninsula, the Alps and Albania and from France to Ukraine and Bulgaria.

Phyllonorycter cerasinella
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P. cerasinella
Binomial name
Phyllonorycter cerasinella
(Reutti, 1852)
Synonyms
  • Lithocolletis cerasinella Reutti, 1852[1]

The larvae feed on Chamaespartium sagittale. They mine the leaves of their host plant. They create a very long, strongly folded and inflated, tentiform mine in the broad wings along the stem.[2]

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