n/a	Status LU: established. 1st record: 2003 (?)
	Schäin-Akazi-Minnematt	Status EU: established.
	n/a	RA: ISEIA: C3. Harmonia+: n/a.
	Robinienminiermotte	Wikipedia: | Wikispecies: n/a (2020)
	Acaciavouwmot	Back to the list of invertebrates

Report the species

→ Report Phyllonorycter robiniella to the National Museum of Natural History.

Brief description

Phyllonorycter robiniella Clemens, 1859 is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is native to North America (where it is distributed from Ontario south to South Carolina and west to Missouri and Texas), but is an introduced species in Europe, where it was first reported near Basel, Switzerland, in 1983. Later, it was also reported in France, Germany, northern Italy (1988), Austria (1989), and Slovakia (1992). It spread gradually through Austria, reaching Hungary in the mid 1990s. The larvae feed on Robinia pseudoacacia, Robinia viscosa and Robinia hispida. They mine the leaves of their host plant (Wikipedia contributors 2020).

Status and distribution in Luxembourg

“This species is native to North America and was introduced into Europe. It was first identified in 1983 in Basel, Switzerland (Huemer et al. 1992). Since then it has colonized all countries of Central and Western Europe, and in Luxembourg the species can be found everywhere on Robinias. Since 2003 it has been found in several places in Luxembourg (N. Schneider, pers. comm.). In the past it has been reported from Wintringen (Schneider 2004), from Bonneweg and Düdelingen (Schneider & Walisch 2009), as well as from Remerschen, Esch/Alzette and Luxemburg-Kirchberg (Ries 2016d). The caterpillar lays conspicuous white blanks on the underside of the leaves of Robinia (Robinia pseudoacacia)” (Hellers 2017: 140-141).

4 observations are documented in the mdata.mnhn.lu portal (MNHNL, iNaturalist & GBIF, 2020).

Risk assessment

ISEIA protocol

C3 (3+1+1+1) (Ries et al. 2017: 69).

Harmonia+ protocol

Not assessed yet.

Worldwide distribution

GBIF, 2019: https://www.gbif.org/species/1749886

Bibliography

• GBIF, 2020. Phyllonorycter robiniella Clemens, 1859 in GBIF Secretariat (2019). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://www.gbif.org/species/1749886 [accessed 2020-04-10]
• Hellers M., 2017. Die Kleinschmetterlinge Luxemburgs: die Familien Roeslerstammiidae, Douglasiidae, Bucculatricidae und Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera: Gracillariiidea). Bull. Soc. Nat. luxemb. 119: 129-144. [PDF 5,21 MB]
• MNHNL, iNaturalist & GBIF, 2020. Phyllonorycter robiniella Clemens, 1859 in MNHNL-mdata, online portal combining species observation from Recorder-Lux, iNaturalist and GBIF. National Museum of Natural History, Luxembourg. URL: https://mdata.mnhn.lu [accessed 2020-04-10]
• Ries, C., A. Arendt, C. Braunert, S. Christian, A. Dohet, A. Frantz, G. Geimer, M. Hellers, J. A. Massard, X. Mestdagh, R. Proess, N. Schneider & M. Pfeiffenschneider, 2017. Environmental impact assessment and black, watch and alert list classification after the ISEIA Protocol of invertebrates in Luxembourg. Bull. Soc. Nat. luxemb. 119: 63-70. [PDF 360 KB]
• Schneider, N., 2004. Auf Spurensuche. 24. Raupenspuren. Regulus 9/04: 20.
• Schneider, N. & T. Walisch, 2009 . Sur la présence au Luxembourg d’Obolodiplosis robiniae (Haldeman, 1847) (Insecta, Diptera, Cecidomyiidae). Bull. Soc. Nat. luxemb. 110: 161-165.
• Wikipedia contributors, 2020. ‘Macrosaccus robiniella’, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 6 April 2020, 01:27 UTC, <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Macrosaccus_robiniella&oldid=949360692> [accessed 2020-04-10]