Phyllonorycter nigristella

Phyllonorycter nigristella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Phyllonorycter
Species: P. nigristella
Binomial name
Phyllonorycter nigristella
(Kumata, 1957)[1]
Synonyms
  • Lithocolletis nigristella Kumata, 1957

Phyllonorycter nigristella is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from the islands of Hokkaidō, Honshū and Shikoku in Japan and from the Russian Far East.[2]

The larvae feed on Quercus dentata, Quercus mongolica and Quercus serrata. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a large, tentiform mine, between two veins on the underside of the leaf.

References

  1. ↑ Taxonomic studies on the Lithocolletinae of Japan (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) Part I
  2. ↑ Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)


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