| Callisto coffeella | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gracillariidae |
| Genus: | Callisto |
| Species: | C. coffeella |
| Binomial name | |
| Callisto coffeella (Zetterstedt, 1839)[1] |
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Callisto coffeella is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is found from Fennoscandia and northern Russia to the Pyrenees, Italy and Romania and from Scotland to Ukraine.
The wingspan is 10-12 mm. There is one generation per year, with adults on wing in June.[2]
The larvae feed on Salix arbuscula, Salix phylicifolia and Salix silesiaca. They mine the leaves of their host plant. Young larvae make a distinctly folded lower-surface tentiform mine. After some time, this mine is vacated and the larva lives freely in a leaf margin that has been folded downwards and is secured with silk. In small leaves the two halves are simply spun together in a pod. Two of these leaf folds are made and eaten out.[3]