''Phyllonorycter fruticosella'' is a
moth
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of the family
Gracillariidae
Gracillariidae is an important family of insects in the order Lepidoptera and the principal family of leaf miners that includes several economic, horticultural or recently invasive pest species such as the horse-chestnut leaf miner, ''Cameraria ...
. It is known from the
Russian Far East
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and the central Asian part of
Russia
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.
Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
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The larva
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e feed on '' Alnus viridis fruticosa''. They probably mine
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Extraction or digging
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*Mining, extraction of mineral resources from the ground through a mine
Grammar
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the leaves of their host plant.
References
fruticosella
Moths of Asia
Moths described in 1979
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