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Phyllonorycter salicicolella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from all of Europe (except the Balkan Peninsula), east to Russia and Japan.

Phyllonorycter salicicolella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gracillariidae
Genus:	Phyllonorycter
Species:	P. salicicolella
Binomial name
Phyllonorycter salicicolella (Sircom, 1848)[1]
Synonyms
Lithocolletis salicicolella Argyromiges salicicolella Sircom, 1848 Lithocolletis brevilineatella Benander, 1946

The wingspan is 7–9 mm. It differs from L.viminetorum as follows: forewings more golden-ochreous, dorsal antemedian spot not reaching basal streak, hindwings rather lighter; the larva whitish-green; dorsal line green.[2]

There are two generations per year with adults on wing in May and again in July and August.[3]

The larvae feed on Salix aurita, Salix caprea, Salix cinerea and Salix myrsinifolia. They mine the leaves of their host plant. They create a small, lower-surface, tentiform mine, often touching the leaf margin. Pupation takes place in a flimsy, whitish or pale yellowish cocoon within the mine. The frass is deposited in a corner of the mine.[4]

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