Parornix inusitatumella

Parornix inusitatumella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Parornix
Species: P. inusitatumella
Binomial name
Parornix inusitatumella
(Chambers, 1873)
Synonyms
  • Parornix inusitatella (Meyrick, 1912)

Parornix inusitatumella is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from Québec, Canada, and Kentucky, Ohio, Maine and Michigan in the United States.[1]

The larvae feed on Crataegus species (including Crataegus calpodendron, Crataegus mollis, Crataegus parvifolia and Crataegus tomentosa). They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a large, white, tentiform mine on the leaf upperside. It is almost circular and specked with frass. When completed the leaf is rolled upwards.

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