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List of Lepidoptera that feed on buckthorns
Buckthorns
are used as
food plants
by the
larvae
of a number of
Lepidoptera
species
, including:
Monophagous
">phagy">Monophagous
Species
which
feed
exclusively
on
Rhamnus
Bucculatricidae
* Several
Bucculatrix
leaf-miner
species:
**
B. alaternella
- only on
Italian buckthorn
**
B. frangutella
**
B. pseudosylvella
- only on
rock
buckthorn
**
B. rhamniella
Pieridae
*
Cleopatra
*
Powdered brimstone
*
Common brimstone
Polyphagous
">phagy">Polyphagous
Species which feed on
Rhamnus
and other
plants
Arctiidae
*Common
footman
Coleophoridae
*
Coleophora
ahenella
Geometridae
*Common
emerald
*Engrailed
*Hebrew
character
*Scalloped
oak
*Winter
moth
Noctuidae
*Common
Quaker
*Dark
dagger
*Dun-bar
Saturniidae
*Emperor moth