Phyllonorycter agilella

Phyllonorycter agilella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Phyllonorycter
Species: P. agilella
Binomial name
Phyllonorycter agilella
(Zeller, 1846)
Synonyms
  • Lithocolletis agilella Zeller, 1846

Phyllonorycter agilella is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is found from Latvia and central Russia to the Pyrenees, Italy and Bulgaria and from France to eastern Russia.

The larvae feed on Ulmus glabra, Ulmus laevis and Ulmus minor. They mine the leaves of their host plant. They create a lower-surface (but sometimes upper-surface), weakly folded tentiform mine. The folded side of the mine is whitish. The pupa is created in a very loose cocoon.

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