Parornix fagivora
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Parornix fagivora | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Gracillariidae |
Genus: | Parornix |
Species: | P. fagivora
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Binomial name | |
Parornix fagivora | |
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Parornix fagivora is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is found from Sweden to the Pyrenees, Italy and Albania and from Great Britain to southern Russia.
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The larvae feed on Fagus sylvatica, including subspecies Fagus sylvatica orientalis. 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 2012-04-19. Retrieved 2010-11-03.