Biology:Phyllonorycter salicicolella

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Short description: Species of moth

Phyllonorycter salicicolella
Phyllonorycter salicicolella.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Phyllonorycter
Species:
P. salicicolella
Binomial name
Phyllonorycter salicicolella
(Sircom, 1848)[1]
Synonyms
  • Lithocolletis salicicolella
  • Argyromiges salicicolella Sircom, 1848
  • Lithocolletis brevilineatella Benander, 1946

Phyllonorycter salicicolella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from all of Europe (except the Balkan Peninsula), east to Russia and Japan .

Mined leaf of Salix caprea
Larva

The wingspan is 7–9 mm. It differs from L.viminetorum as follows: forewings more golden-ochreous, dorsal antemedian spot not reaching basal streak, hindwings rather lighter; the larva whitish-green; dorsal line green.[2]

There are two generations per year with adults on wing in May and again in July and August.[3]

The larvae feed on eared willow (Salix aurita), goat willow (Salix caprea), common sallow (Salix cinerea) and dark-leaved willow (Salix myrsinifolia). They mine the leaves of their host plant. They create a small, lower-surface, tentiform mine, often touching the leaf margin. The frass is deposited in a corner of the mine. Pupation takes place in a flimsy, whitish or pale yellowish cocoon within the mine.[4]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q7189248 entry