Phyllonorycter longispinata

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

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

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.

References
  1. Taxonomic studies on the Lithocolletinae of Japan (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) Part I
  2. Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)


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