Phyllonorycter Salicifoliella
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Phyllonorycter Salicifoliella
''Phyllonorycter salicifoliella'' is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is widespread across North America, from Mississippi to Ontario in the east and from southern California to northern British Columbia in the west. The length of the forewings is 3–4 mm. Adults are on wing from July to mid-August and again from late August to November in two generations. The larvae mostly feed on ''Salix'' species, including ''Salix alba'', ''Salix amygdaloides'', ''Salix babylonica'', ''Salix bebbiana'', ''Salix bonplandiana'', ''Salix caroliniana'', ''Salix eriocephala'', ''Salix lasiolepis'', Salix "longifolia", ''Salix lutea'', ''Salix monticola'', ''Salix purpurea'', ''Salix x rubens'' (''Salix alba'' x ''Salix × fragilis, Salix fragilis''), ''Salix scouleriana'' and ''Salix sericea'', but may also feed on ''Populus'' species, including ''Populus balsamifera'' and ''Populus tremuloides''. They leaf miner, mine the leaves of their host plant. References

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Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of which have yet to be described. Most species of moth are nocturnal, but there are also crepuscular and diurnal species. Differences between butterflies and moths While the butterflies form a monophyletic group, the moths, comprising the rest of the Lepidoptera, do not. Many attempts have been made to group the superfamilies of the Lepidoptera into natural groups, most of which fail because one of the two groups is not monophyletic: Microlepidoptera and Macrolepidoptera, Heterocera and Rhopalocera, Jugatae and Frenatae, Monotrysia and Ditrysia.Scoble, MJ 1995. The Lepidoptera: Form, function and diversity. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press; 404 p. Although the rules for distinguishing moths from butterflies are not well establishe ...
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