| Phyllonorycter longispinata | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gracillariidae |
| Genus: | Phyllonorycter |
| Species: | P. longispinata |
| Binomial name | |
| Phyllonorycter longispinata (Kumata, 1958)[1] |
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Phyllonorycter longispinata is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from Japan (HokkaidÅ, HonshÅ«).[2]
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.