Lyonetia clerkella
Mine
Lyonetia clerkella, Dolydd Hafren, Wales
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lyonetiidae
Genus:	Lyonetia
Species:	L. clerkella
Binomial name
Lyonetia clerkella (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
Phalaena clerkella Linnaeus, 1758 Lyonetia penicilla Borkhausen, 1794 Lyonetia cerasifoliella Hübner, 1796 Lyonetia malifoliella Hübner, 1796 Lyonetia malella Schrank, 1802 Lyonetia autumnella Curtis, 1829 Lyonetia unipunctella Stephens, 1829 Lyonetia semiaurella Stephens, 1829 Lyonetia nivella Stephens, 1829 Lyonetia aereella Treitschke, 1833

Lyonetia clerkella, the apple leaf miner, is a moth in the family Lyonetiidae. It is found all over Europe, north-western Siberia, the Far East, northern Africa, the Middle East, Turkey, India and Japan.

The wingspan is 7–9 mm. The forewings are shining white, sometimes partly or wholly suffused with fuscous ; a brown or darker fuscous blotch in disc posteriorly ; a bent transverse line beyond this, and three costal streaks connected with an apical spot brown or darker fuscous ; a round black apical dot ; a projecting blackish hook in apical cilia. Hindwings are dark grey. The larva is pale green.^[1]

Adults are on wing in June, August and from October to April in the Benelux. There are two or more generations per year.

The larvae feed on various fruit trees, including Betulaceae and Rosaceae species.

References

External links

• Media related to Lyonetia clerkella at Wikimedia Commons
• Plant Parasites of Europe
• UKmoths
• Lepidoptera of Belgium

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