Marmara fulgidella

Marmara fulgidella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Marmara
Species: M. fulgidella
Binomial name
Marmara fulgidella
(Clemens, 1860)

Marmara fulgidella is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from the United States (including Pennsylvania).[1]

The larvae feed on Castanea and Quercus species, including Quercus prinus. They mine trunks and branches of their host plant. The mine has the form of a long winding gallery just under the epidermis of young trunks and branches.

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