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