Phyllonorycter longispinata

Phyllonorycter longispinata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Phyllonorycter
Species: P. longispinata
Binomial name
Phyllonorycter longispinata
(Kumata, 1958)[1]
Synonyms
  • Lithocolletis longispinata Kumata, 1958

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

The larvae feed on Alnus hirsuta and Alnus japonica. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a ptychonome, yellowish- or brownish-green, rather elongate, large mine on the underside of the leaf, between two veins.

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