Paranthrene diaphana

Paranthrene diaphana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sesiidae
Genus: Paranthrene
Species: P. diaphana
Binomial name
Paranthrene diaphana
Dalla Torre & Strand, 1925[1]

Paranthrene diaphana is a moth of the Sesiidae family. It is found in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro, the Republic of Macedonia and Bulgaria,[2] as well as Turkey, Azerbaijan and Iran.

The larvae feed on Populus and Salix species[3] (including Salix alba). They mine the trunks of their host plant. Adult females preferably deposit their eggs in injured parts of the host tree.

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