Prays oleae
| Olive moth | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Yponomeutidae |
| Genus: | Prays |
| Species: | P. oleae |
| Binomial name | |
| Prays oleae Bernard, 1788 | |
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Prays oleae (olive moth) is a moth of the Yponomeutidae family. It is found in Southern Europe (the Mediterranean region) and North Africa.
The wingspan is 11–15 mm.
The larvae are a pest on Olea europaea. Other recorded food plants include Phillyrea, jasmine and Ligustrum. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine initially consists of an upper-surface, short, narrow corridor. Later, in early spring, it may abandon this mine and create an irregular full depth blotch elsewhere on the leaf, or it may continue the corridor into a blotch. Most frass is ejected through a hole in the mine. Part of this frass is captured in spinning at the leaf underside.[1]
Gallery
Leafmines by Prays oleae larvae
Larva
Young larva
Older larva
Olive leaves mined by the young larva (2b, 2b*); olive shoot eaten by the mature larva (2b**)
References
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