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 | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gracillariidae |
| Genus: | Phyllonorycter |
| Species: | P. watanabei
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| Phyllonorycter watanabei (Kumata, 1963)[1]
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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]
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