Phyllonorycter restrictella

Phyllonorycter restrictella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Phyllonorycter
Species: P. restrictella
Binomial name
Phyllonorycter restrictella
(Braun, 1939)

Phyllonorycter restrictella is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from Québec in Canada and New York, Maine, Connecticut, Vermont, Pennsylvania and Michigan in the United States.[1]

The larvae feed on Castanea dentata, Fagus grandifolia and Fagus sylvatica. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of an elongate, tentiform, underside mine between two lateral veins.

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