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title: "Horse-chestnut Leafminer"
description: "Cameraria ohridella — Insetos e aranhas. The horse-chestnut leaf miner (Cameraria ohridella) is a leaf-mining moth of the family Gracillariidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/horse-chestnut-leafminer
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Horse-chestnut Leafminer

> Cameraria ohridella — Insetos e aranhas. The horse-chestnut leaf miner (Cameraria ohridella) is a leaf-mining moth of the family Gracillariidae.

- Scientific name: *Cameraria ohridella*
- Category: `insects` (Insetos e aranhas)
- Habitats: `urban` (Cidades e jardins)
- iNaturalist observations: 12168
- Wikidata: [Q1071848](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1071848)
- iNaturalist taxon: [126088](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/126088)

## Names

- en: Horse-chestnut Leafminer
- de: Rosskastanien-Miniermotte
- fr: Mineuse du marronnier
- nl: Paardenkastanjemineermot
- pl: Szrotówek kasztanowcowiaczek

## Countries with the most observations

GB (3278), DE (1501), RU (823), UA (814), FR (557), AT (502), PL (500), LT (259), CZ (230), CH (221), NL (207), DK (188)

## Summary

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: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse-chestnut_leaf_miner

## Photo

![Horse-chestnut Leafminer](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/horse-chestnut-leafminer/medium.jpg)

Photo: Patrascu Lucian-Marius · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/321096808

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/horse-chestnut-leafminer?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).