Phyllonorycter pseuditeina

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

Phyllonorycter pseuditeina is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is native to Nepal.^[2]

The wingspan is 5-5.2 mm.

The larvae feed on an undetermined shrub. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a rather small, tentiformed occurring upon the lower surface of the leaf, always situated on the space between two lateral veins. The lower epidermis of the leaf on the mining part whitish, very much wrinkled longitudinally, while without any distinct ridges even in fully developed condition.

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)