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Phyllonorycter kisoensis is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from the main island of Honshū in Japan and from the Russian Far East.[2]

Phyllonorycter kisoensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gracillariidae
Genus:	Phyllonorycter
Species:	P. kisoensis
Binomial name
Phyllonorycter kisoensis Kumata & Park, 1978[1]

The wingspan is 6.2–8 mm.

The larvae feed on Alnus hirsuta. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a tentiform blotch-mine on the underside of the leaf, usually situated on the space between the lateral veins or rarely along the leaf-margin. It is very large, and elliptical in outline. The lower epidermis of the mining part is constricted, with five to eight longitudinal wrinkles.

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