The Nature LibraryEN·ES
iNat·930147SpeciesInsecta0 field observations
  1. Animals
  2. ›Arthropods
  3. ›Hexapods
  4. ›Insects
  5. ›Winged and Once-winged Insects
  6. ›Butterflies and Moths
  7. ›Ermine Moths and Allies
  8. ›Lyonetiidae
  9. ›Lyonetiinae
  10. ›Lyonetia
No photograph on file

Lyonetia malifoliella

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.

Continue reading on Wikipedia
§·

Listen

Looking for field recordings…

§·

Where it lives

Recorded sightings

—

geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Lyonetia malifoliella in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

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 930147.