''Phyllonorycter graecus'' is a

moth Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...

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

Peloponnisos The Peloponnese ( ), Peloponnesus ( ; , ) or Morea (; ) is a peninsula and geographic region in Southern Greece, and the southernmost region of the Balkans. It is connected to the central part of the country by the Isthmus of Corinth land bridge ...

Greece Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to th ...

. There are at least two, but possibly multiple generations per year. The

larva A larva (; : larvae ) is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into their next life stage. Animals with indirect development such as insects, some arachnids, amphibians, or cnidarians typically have a larval phase ...

e feed on ''

Quercus macrolepis ''Quercus ithaburensis'' subsp. ''macrolepis'', the Valonia oak, is a subspecies of ''Quercus ithaburensis'', a member of the beech family, Fagaceae. It may also be treated as a separate species, ''Quercus macrolepis''. Taxonomy The Valonia o ...

''. They

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the leaves of their host plant.bladmineerders.nl
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References

graecus __NOTOC__ In Greek mythology, Graecus (; ) was the son of Zeus and Pandora, daughter of Deucalion, and the eponym of the Graecians. According to the Byzantine author John the Lydian (c. AD 490 – 565), Hesiod, in his ''Catalogue of Women'', stat ...

Moths of Europe Moths described in 2007 {{Phyllonorycter-stub