Phyllonorycter pulchra
Appearance
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Gracillariidae |
Genus: | Phyllonorycter |
Species: | P. pulchra
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Binomial name | |
Phyllonorycter pulchra (Kumata, 1963)[1]
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Phyllonorycter pulchra is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from the islands of Kyushu and Honshu in Japan and from Taiwan.[1]
The wingspan is 6.5–7.5 mm.[1]
The larvae feed as leaf miners on Rubus illecebrosus and Rubus palmatus var. coptophyllus.[1] The larva mines into the inter-parenchyma of the leaves.[1]
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