''Phyllonorycter fraxinella'' is a
moth of the family
Gracillariidae. It is found from
Germany and
Poland to
Sicily and
Greece and from
France to southern
Russia.
The
larvae feed on ''
Genista germanica
''Genista germanica'', the German greenweed, is a plant species in the genus '' Genista'' belonging to the family Fabaceae.
Distribution and habitat
This species grows in Central Europe, Western Europe and Southern Europe
Southern Europe is ...
'' and ''
Genista tinctoria
''Genista tinctoria'', the dyer's greenweed or dyer's broom, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. Its other common names include dyer's whin, waxen woad and waxen wood. The Latin specific epithet ''tinctoria'' means "used as a ...
''. They
mine
Mine, mines, miners or mining may refer to:
Extraction or digging
* Miner, a person engaged in mining or digging
*Mining, extraction of mineral resources from the ground through a mine
Grammar
*Mine, a first-person English possessive pronoun
...
the leaves of their host plant.
References
fraxinella
Moths of Europe
Moths described in 1846
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