Phyllonorycter leucocorona

Phyllonorycter leucocorona
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Phyllonorycter
Species: P. leucocorona
Binomial name
Phyllonorycter leucocorona
(Kumata, 1957)[1]
Synonyms
  • Lithocolletis leucocorona Kumata, 1957
  • Phyllonorycter leucocorna Kogi, 2005

Phyllonorycter leucocorona is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from the islands of Hokkaidō, Honshū and Kyūshū in Japan.[2]

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

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