Marmara fulgidella

Marmara fulgidella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gracillariidae
Genus:	Marmara
Species:	M. fulgidella
Binomial name
	Marmara fulgidella; (Clemens, 1860)

Marmara fulgidella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from the United States (including Pennsylvania).^[1]

The larvae feed on Castanea and Quercus species, including Quercus prinus. They mine trunks and branches of their host plant. The mine has the form of a long winding gallery just under the epidermis of young trunks and branches.

References[]

^ Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)^{[permanent dead link]}

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[1] Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)^{[permanent dead link]}

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