Phyllonorycter agilella
Phyllonorycter agilella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is found from Latvia and central Russia to the Pyrenees, Italy and Bulgaria and from France to eastern Russia.
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| Species: | P. agilella |
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| Phyllonorycter agilella (Zeller, 1846) | |
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The larvae feed on Ulmus glabra, Ulmus laevis and Ulmus minor, mining the leaves of their host plant. They create a lower-surface (but sometimes upper-surface), weakly folded tentiform mine. The folded side of the mine is whitish. The pupa is created in a very loose cocoon.
External links
- bladmineerders.nl
- Fauna Europaea
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