Phyllonorycter cretata

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

Phyllonorycter cretata is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from Japan (Hokkaidō) and the Russian Far East.[2]

The larvae feed on Quercus crispula, Quercus mongolica and Quercus serrata. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a small, yellowish, tentiform mine, between two veins on the lower surface of the leaf.

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