Phyllonorycter bicinctella

Phyllonorycter bicinctella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Phyllonorycter
Species: P. bicinctella
Binomial name
Phyllonorycter bicinctella
(Matsumura, 1931)[1]
Synonyms
  • Lithocolletis bicinctella Matsumura, 1931

Phyllonorycter bicinctella is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from Hokkaido island of Japan and the Russian Far East.

The larvae feed on Ulmus davidiana var. japonica, Quercus crispula and Ulmus pumila. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine is ptychonomous and located on the space between two veins of the lower surface of the leaves.

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