Phyllonorycter populi is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It was described by Ivan Nikolayevich Filipjev in 1937 and is known from southern Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
Phyllonorycter populi | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Gracillariidae |
Genus: | Phyllonorycter |
Species: | P. populi |
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Phyllonorycter populi (Filipjev, 1931)[1] | |
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The larvae feed on Populus alba and Populus nigra. They probably mine the leaves of their host plant.
Phyllonorycter populi is a replacement name for Lithocolletis populiella.(Filipjev, 1926).
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