''Phyllonorycter uchidai'' is a
moth of the family
Gracillariidae. It is known from
Hokkaido island of
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
.
The
wingspan is 6–7 mm.
The
larvae feed as
leaf miner
A leaf miner is any one of numerous species of insects in which the larval stage lives in, and eats, the leaf tissue of plants. The vast majority of leaf-mining insects are moths (Lepidoptera), sawflies (Symphyta, the mother clade of wasps), ...
s on ''
Sorbus alnifolia''.
The mine is ptychonomous and located on the upper surface of the leaf.
References
uchidai
Moths of Japan
Leaf miners
Moths described in 1963
Taxa named by Tosio Kumata
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