Phyllonorycter drepanota

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

Phyllonorycter drepanota is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from the Nepal and Uttarakhand, India.^[2]

The wingspan is 5.5–7 mm.

The larvae feed on Engelhardia spicata. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a rather small occurring upon the upper surface of the leaf. It is oval or elliptical and always elongate along the middle vein. The upper epidermis of the leaf on the mining part is brownish-white, with a longitudinal ridge in accomplished condition.

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[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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