Leaf mines and leaf miners

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GYÖRGY CSÓKA
Forest Research Institute

Microsetia sexguttella Thnbg.
Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae

Hosts are Chenodpodium and Amaranthus. Makes large bilateral, transparent window-like blotch mine. The faeces is deposited in a thick line in the middle of the mine. Occurs in Europe and North Africa, common everywhere in Hungary.

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