Biology:Metriochroa syringae
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Short description: Species of moth
| Metriochroa syringae | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gracillariidae |
| Genus: | Metriochroa |
| Species: | M. syringae
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| Binomial name | |
| Metriochroa syringae Kumata, 1998[1]
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Metriochroa syringae is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Hokkaido island in Japan .[2]
The wingspan is 5.6-6.5 mm.
The larvae feed on Syringa reticulata. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine starts as a narrowly linear mine. Later, it gradually widens into a very long and irregularly curved gallery that is sometimes fused into a large blotch. The last sap-feeding larva makes an inter parenchymal mine, so that the mine is seen from the upper side of the leaf as a trace of pale greenish mottles in this stage. A pupal chamber is found within the mine, but not always at the end of the mine. It is ellipsoidal, with very slightly swollen upper and lower sides.
References
Wikidata ☰ Q6824380 entry
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