Parornix fagivora

Parornix fagivora
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gracillariidae
Genus:	Parornix
Species:	P. fagivora
Binomial name
	Parornix fagivora; (Frey, 1861)
Synonyms
	Ornix fagivora Frey, 1861;

Parornix fagivora is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is found from Sweden to the Pyrenees, Italy and Albania and from Great Britain to southern Russia.

A piece of beech leaf with its edge turned down by the adult larva

The wingspan is 11–14 mm.^[2]

The larvae feed on Fagus sylvatica, including subspecies Fagus sylvatica orientalis. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine starts as a small lower-surface epidermal corridor with reddish brown frass. Later, it becomes a small rectangular full depth blotch with black frass. The larva deposits only little silk in the mine, that remains practically flat. In the end, the larva leaves the mine and continues living freely under a folded leaf margin or leaf tip.^[3]

References[edit]

^ Fauna Europaea
^ microlepidoptera.nl Archived 2011-02-12 at the Wayback Machine
^ "bladmineerders.nl". Archived from the original on 2012-04-19. Retrieved 2010-11-03.

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[1] Fauna Europaea

[2] rolepidoptera.nl Archived 2011-02-12 at the Wayback Machine

[3] "bladmineerders.nl". Archived from the original on 2012-04-19. Retrieved 2010-11-03.

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