Phyllonorycter gerasimowi

Phyllonorycter gerasimowi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Phyllonorycter
Species: P. gerasimowi
Binomial name
Phyllonorycter gerasimowi
(M. Hering, 1930)[1]
Synonyms
  • Lithocolletis gerasimowi M. Hering, 1930
  • Phyllonorycter gerasimovi

Phyllonorycter gerasimowi is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from Hungary, Thrace, southern and central Russia and Ukraine.

The larvae feed on Malus domestica. They mine the leaves of their host plant. They create an upper-surface tentiform mine.[2]

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