Phyllonorycter cytisifoliae
| Phyllonorycter cytisifoliae | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gracillariidae |
| Genus: | Phyllonorycter |
| Species: | P. cytisifoliae |
| Binomial name | |
| Phyllonorycter cytisifoliae (M. Hering, 1927)[1] | |
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Phyllonorycter cytisifoliae is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from the Canary Islands.
The larvae feed on Chamaecytisus proliferus. They mine the leaves of their host plant. They create small, upper-surface, tentifom mine. The mine is only little folded and hardly contracts the leaflet. Pupation takes place inside the mine.[2]
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