Phyllonorycter kisoensis

Phyllonorycter kisoensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Phyllonorycter
Species:
P. kisoensis
Binomial name
Phyllonorycter kisoensis
Kumata & Park, 1978[1]

Phyllonorycter kisoensis is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from the main island of Honshū in Japan and from the Russian Far East.[2]

The wingspan is 6.2–8 mm.

The larvae feed on Alnus hirsuta. They mine the leaves of their host plant.

References

  1. ^ Descriptions of two new species of the genus Phyllonorycter Hübner from Japan and Korea, with notes on the longispinata-group (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae)
  2. ^ Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)


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