Phyllonorycter dubitella

Phyllonorycter dubitella
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gracillariidae
Genus:	Phyllonorycter
Species:	P. dubitella
Binomial name
	Phyllonorycter dubitella; (Herrich-Schaffer, 1855)
Synonyms
	Lithocolletis dubitella Herrich-Schaffer, 1855;

Phyllonorycter dubitella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is found from Fennoscandia and northern Russia to the Pyrenees, Italy and Bulgaria and from Great Britain to Ukraine.

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The wingspan is about 8 mm. There are two generations per year with adults on wing in May and June and again in August.^[2]

The larvae feed on Salix caprea. They mine the leaves of their host plant.^[3]

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