Phyllonorycter kisoensis
Phyllonorycter kisoensis | |
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Scientific 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 Gracillariidae family. 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. The mine has the form of a tentiform blotch-mine on the underside of the leaf, usually situated on the space between the lateral veins or rarely along the leaf-margin. It is very large, and elliptical in outline. The lower epidermis of the mining part is constricted, with five to eight longitudinal wrinkles.
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