Phyllonorycter ovalifoliae

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

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

The wingspan is 7-7.5 mm.

The larvae feed on Lyonia ovalifolia. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a very elongate, tentiformed blotch occurring upon the lower side of the leaf, always situated along the leaf-margin. The lower epidermis of the leaf at the mining part is dark brownish and much wrinkled in the well-matured stage, causing the leaf to fold almost downward.

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)