Platyptilia gonodactyla
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pterophoridae |
| Genus: | Platyptilia |
| Species: | P. gonodactyla |
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| Platyptilia gonodactyla (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)[1] | |
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Platyptilia gonodactyla is a moth of the family Pterophoroidea. It is found in the Palearctic ecozone.
The wingspan is 22–28 mm. The moth flies from May to October depending on the location.
The larvae feed on Coltsfoot and sometimes also Common Butterbur. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine consists of a small, transparent, irregularly shaped full depth mine. There are often several mines in a single leaf. The frass is granular. There is little or it is missing completely. After some time the larvae leave the mines and continue feeding freely at the leaf underside or under a folded leaf margin.[2]
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