Phyllonorycter watanabei

Phyllonorycter watanabei
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Phyllonorycter
Species:
P. watanabei
Binomial name
Phyllonorycter watanabei
(Kumata, 1963)[1]
Synonyms
  • Lithocolletis watanabei Kumata, 1963

Phyllonorycter watanabei is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from the islands of Hokkaido, Shikoku, Honshu and Kyushu in Japan and from the Russian Far East.[1]

The wingspan is 5.5–6 mm.[1]

The larvae feed as leaf miners on Pourthiaea villosa and Pyrus ussuriensis.[1] The mine is ptychonomous and located in the space between two veins of the lower surface of the leaf.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Tosio Kumata (August 1963). "Taxonomic studies on the Lithocolletinae of Japan (Lepidoptera : Gracillariidae) Part 2" (PDF). Insecta Matsumurana. 26 (1): 1–48. hdl:2115/9698. ISSN 0020-1804. Wikidata Q110229260.


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