''Phyllonorycter tritorrhecta'' is a
moth of the family
Gracillariidae. It is known from
Honshu island in
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
.
The
wingspan is 5–6 mm.
The
larvae feed on ''
Zelkova serrata''. They
mine
Mine, mines, miners or mining may refer to:
Extraction or digging
* Miner, a person engaged in mining or digging
*Mining, extraction of mineral resources from the ground through a mine
Grammar
*Mine, a first-person English possessive pronoun
...
the leaves of their host plant. The mine is ptychonomous and created on the upper surface of the leaves.
References
tritorrhecta
Moths of Japan
Moths described in 1935
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