Phyllonorycter celtisella
Phyllonorycter celtisella | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Gracillariidae |
Genus: | Phyllonorycter |
Species: | P. celtisella |
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Phyllonorycter celtisella (Chambers, 1871)[1] | |
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Phyllonorycter celtisella is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from Ontario in Canada and Connecticut, Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio and Texas in the United States.[2]
The larvae feed on Celtis species, including Celtis occidentalis. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a blotch mine on the upperside of the leaf. The larva, of the cylindrical type in the later stages, enters the leaf on the lower surface, and makes a narrow linear mine, then cuts through the parenchyma to the upper side, where the mine broadens into an elongate blotch, made tent-like by a longitudinal ridge in each epidermis. The larvae eat the entire parenchyma, leaving merely the dark discoloured cuticles of the leaf.
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