''Phyllonorycter juncei'' is a

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of the family

Gracillariidae Gracillariidae is an important family of insects in the order Lepidoptera and the principal family of leaf miners that includes several economic, horticultural or recently invasive pest species such as the horse-chestnut leaf miner, ''Cameraria ...

. It is known from the

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and

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. The

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e feed on '' Genista tenera'', '' Teline maderensis'', '' Teline stenopetala'' and ''

Spartium junceum ''Spartium junceum'', known as Spanish broom, rush broom, or weaver's broom, it is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and the sole species in the genus ''Spartium''. It is closely related to the other brooms (in the genera ''Cyti ...

''. They

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Subspecies

**''Phyllonorycter juncei juncei'' (Canary Islands) **''Phyllonorycter juncei madeirae'' Deschka, 1976 (Madeira)

References

juncei Insects of the Canary Islands Moths of Africa Moths described in 1908 {{Phyllonorycter-stub