Horse-chestnut leaf miner: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the horse-chestnut leaf miner lives – recorded in 12 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Cameraria ohridella
Group	Butterflies & moths
Found in	12 countries
Continents	Europe
Class	Insect
Order	Lepidoptera
Family	Gracillariidae

Where does the horse-chestnut leaf miner live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the horse-chestnut leaf miner in 12 countries and territories across Europe. In Austria, Belarus, France, United Kingdom, Norway, Romania, Russia, Sweden, Ukraine it is listed as introduced (GRIIS checklists via GBIF).

Netherlands
United Kingdom (introduced)
Germany
Sweden (introduced)
Belarus (introduced)
France (introduced)
Romania (introduced)
Ukraine (introduced)
Finland
Russia (introduced)
Norway (introduced)
Austria (introduced)

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

What kind of animal is the horse-chestnut leaf miner?

The horse-chestnut leaf miner (Cameraria ohridella) is an insect in the order Lepidoptera and the family Gracillariidae, genus Cameraria. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the horse-chestnut leaf miner

The horse-chestnut leaf miner (Cameraria ohridella) is a leaf-mining moth of the family Gracillariidae. The horse-chestnut leaf miner was first observed in North Macedonia in 1984, and was described as a new species in 1986. Its larvae are leaf miners on the common horse-chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum). The horse-chestnut leafminer was first collected and inadvertently pressed in herbarium sheets by the botanist Theodor von Heldreich in central Greece in 1879.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Horse-chestnut leaf miner (revision 1375119040), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q1071848 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).