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Phyllonorycter aemula

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Phyllonorycter aemula
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Phyllonorycter
Species:
P. aemula
Binomial name
Phyllonorycter aemula
Triberti, Deschka & Huemer, 1997

Phyllonorycter aemula is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is found in northern Italy and Austria.

Adults are on wing from April to early June and again from July to early August in two generations.

The larvae feed on Ostrya carpinifolia. They mine the leaves of their host plant.

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