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Gracillariidae
Family of moths / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Gracillariidae is an important family of insects in the order Lepidoptera and the principal family of leaf miners that includes several economic, horticultural or recently invasive pest species such as the horse-chestnut leaf miner, Cameraria ohridella.
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Gracillariidae | |
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Privet leaf miner, Gracillaria syringella (Fabricius, 1794) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Gracillarioidea |
Family: | Gracillariidae Stainton, 1854 |
Subfamilies | |
Genera - see "Subfamilies and genera" | |
Diversity[1] | |
About 101 genera and 1,866 species |
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