Phyllonorycter leucocorona | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Gracillariidae |
Genus: | Phyllonorycter |
Species: | P. leucocorona |
Binomial name | |
Phyllonorycter leucocorona (Kumata, 1957)[1] |
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Phyllonorycter leucocorona is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from Japan (Hokkaidō, Honshū, Kyūshū).[2]
The larvae feed on Quercus dentata and Quercus serrata. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a very small, tentiform mine between two veins on the underside of the leaf.