Phyllonorycter aberrans

Phyllonorycter aberrans
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Phyllonorycter
Species: P. aberrans
Binomial name
Phyllonorycter aberrans
(Braun, 1930) [1]

Phyllonorycter aberrans is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known Ohio, Florida, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, South Carolina and Tennessee in the United States.[2]

The larvae feed on Desmodium species, including Desmodium canescens and Desmodium paniculatum. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a white blotch mine, with a loosened epidermis which is very thin and almost pure white, on the upperside of the leaf

References

  1. ↑ Phyllonorycter aberrans at The Global Lepidoptera Names Index, Natural History Museum
  2. ↑ Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)

Braun, Annette (March 1930). "Notes and New Species of Microlepidoptera from the Mineral Springs Region of Adams County, Ohio". Transactions of the American Entomological Society: Volume 56, Number 1. American Entomological Society. pp. 1–17. 


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