Phyllonorycter tiliacella

Phyllonorycter tiliacella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Phyllonorycter
Species: P. tiliacella
Binomial name
Phyllonorycter tiliacella
(Chambers, 1871)[1]
Synonyms
  • Lithocolletis tiliacella Chambers, 1871
  • Phyllonorycter tiliaeella (Chambers, 1871)
  • Phyllonorycter tilieacella (Dyar, 1903)
  • Phyllonorycter tiliella (Walsingham, 1889)
  • Phyllonorycter tilliaeella (Chambers, 1878)

Phyllonorycter tiliacella is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from Canada (Québec and Ontario) and the United States (including Illinois, Kentucky, New York, Maine, Vermont and Connecticut).[2]

The larvae feed on Tilia species, including Tilia americana. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a tentiform mine on upperside leaf. The mine is white and densely speckled with dark brown. The pupa of the summer brood is suspended in a very slight silken web, in the brood remaining through the winter in the pupal state, a denser cocoon is spun, which is attached above and below.

References

  1. ↑ Revision of the North American species of the genus Lithocolletis Hübner
  2. ↑ Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
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