Phyllonorycter watanabei

Phyllonorycter watanabei is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from the islands of Hokkaido, Shikoku, Honshu and Kyushu in Japan and from the Russian Far East.^[1]

Phyllonorycter watanabei
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gracillariidae
Genus:	Phyllonorycter
Species:	P. watanabei
Binomial name
Phyllonorycter watanabei (Kumata, 1963)[1]
Synonyms
Lithocolletis watanabei Kumata, 1963

The wingspan is 5.5–6 mm.^[1]

The larvae feed as leaf miners on Pourthiaea villosa and Pyrus ussuriensis.^[1] The mine is ptychonomous and located in the space between two veins of the lower surface of the leaf.^[1]