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Eriocraniidae

3 species · Animals

Animalia › Arthropoda › Insecta › Lepidoptera › Eriocraniidae

Eriocrania semipurpurella Stephens, 1835

Eriocrania semipurpurella is a moth that feeds on birch, flies in March-April, and requires genital microscopy to distinguish from similar species.

Dyseriocrania griseocapitella Walsingham, 1898

Dyseriocrania griseocapitella, the Chinquapin leaf-miner, is an Eriocraniidae moth found in eastern North America whose larvae mine oak and chinquapin leaves.

Dyseriocrania subpurpurella (Haworth, 1828)

Dyseriocrania subpurpurella is a European moth whose larvae form leaf mines on oaks and related trees, active as adults in spring.

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