Phyllonorycter kisoensis

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Phyllonorycter kisoensis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Phyllonorycter
Species:
P. kisoensis
Binomial name
Phyllonorycter kisoensis
Kumata & Park, 1978 [1]

Phyllonorycter kisoensis is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from the main island of Honshū in Japan and from the Russian Far East. [2]

The wingspan is 6.2–8 mm.

The larvae feed on Alnus hirsuta . They mine the leaves of their host plant.

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