Phyllonorycter oreas

Phyllonorycter oreas
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Phyllonorycter
Species: P. oreas
Binomial name
Phyllonorycter oreas
Kumata, 1973[1]

Phyllonorycter oreas is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from the Nepal.[2]

The wingspan is 6-6.5 mm.

The larvae feed on Lannea and Odina species. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a very large, irregularly oblong, tentiformed blotch occurring upon the upper surface of the leaf, usually situated on the space between two lateral veins. The upper epidermis of the leaf on the mining part is brownish-white in colour, with one or two strong, longitudinal ridges in fully matured state.

References

  1. ↑ On the genus Phyllonorycter or Lithocolletis from Central Nepal, with descriptions of twelve new species - notes on Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera) of Nepal, I
  2. ↑ Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
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