Phyllonorycter watanabei is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from the islands of Hokkaido, Shikoku, Honshu and Kyushu in Japan and from the Russian Far East.[1]
Phyllonorycter watanabei | |
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Gracillariidae |
Genus: | Phyllonorycter |
Species: | P. watanabei |
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Phyllonorycter watanabei (Kumata, 1963)[1] | |
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The larvae feed as leaf miners on Pourthiaea villosa and Pyrus ussuriensis.[1] The mine is ptychonomous and located in the space between two veins of the lower surface of the leaf.[1]
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