Paranthrene diaphana
Paranthrene diaphana | |
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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.