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Pear Leaf Blister Moth
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Pear Leaf Blister Moth

Leucoptera malifoliella

Leucoptera malifoliella, the pear leaf blister moth, ribbed apple leaf miner or apple leaf miner, is a moth of the Lyonetiidae family that can be found in all of Europe.

This wingspan is about 8 millimetres (0.31 in). It Differs from Leucoptera lotella as follows: forewings broader, post-tornal spot pale violet-golden, strongly black-margined on both sides, apex of wing orange, penultimate bar in cilia horizontal. The larva is green whitish; head and plate of 2 blackish

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 522769.