Protolithocolletis lathyri

Protolithocolletis lathyri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Protolithocolletis
Species: P. lathyri
Binomial name
Protolithocolletis lathyri
Braun, 1929

Protolithocolletis lathyri is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from California and Michigan in the United States and Manitoba in Canada.[1]

The larvae feed on Lathyrus venosus and Lathyrus japonicus. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine is tentiform partially folding the leaflet.[2]

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