Phyllonorycter rubicola

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

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

The wingspan is about 6 mm.

The larvae feed on Rubus paniculatus. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a rather large, irregularly star-like mine occurring upon the upper surface of the leaf. The upper epidermis of the leaf on the mining part is brownish and somewhat orbicularly swollen in the centre where pupation takes place.

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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