| 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 (HokkaidÅ) 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.