Phyllonorycter himalayana

Phyllonorycter himalayana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Phyllonorycter
Species: P. himalayana
Binomial name
Phyllonorycter himalayana
Kumata, 1973[1]

Phyllonorycter himalayana is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from the Nepal.[2]

The wingspan is about 9 mm.

The larvae feed on Quercus semecarpifolia. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a rather large, elliptical or circular, slightly tentiformed blotch occurring upon the upper surface of the leaf, usually situated on the space between the middle vein and the leaf-margin. The upper epidermis of the leaf on the mining part is whitish-brown, smeared with irregular, dark reddish-brown blotches or lines and with many minute, longitudinal ridges in the fully matured stage.

References

  1. ↑ On the genus Phyllonorycter or Lithocolletis from Central Nepal, with descriptions of twelve new species - notes on Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera) of Nepal, I
  2. ↑ Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
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