Phyllonorycter cinctata

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

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

The wingspan is 7-8 mm.

The larvae feed on Viburnum erubescens. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a rather small, elongate, tentiformed blotch occurring upon the lower surface of the leaf, usually situated on the space between two lateral veins. In fully developed state, the upper epidermis of the leaf on the mining part is brownish, much constricted longitudinally, with five or more moderate ridges.

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)