page_title: Phyllocnistis
section_title: Species
hierarchical_section_title: Phyllocnistis / Species
caption_attribution_description: Leaf mines by Phyllocnistis hyperpersea on Persea borbonia. The red arrow indicates the pupal crypt.
context_page_description: Phyllocnistis is a genus of moths in the family Gracillariidae.
context_section_description: As of 2012, about 126 Phyllocnistis species have been described. This is probably a fraction of the true diversity of the genus, especially in the tropics, where there may be hundreds of species yet to be collected.
  Phyllocnistis abatiae E. M. Hering, 1958
  Phyllocnistis acmias Meyrick, 1906
  Phyllocnistis ampelopsiella Chambers, 1871
  Phyllocnistis amydropa Meyrick, 1934
  Phyllocnistis argentella (Bradley, 1957)
  Phyllocnistis argothea Meyrick, 1933
  Phyllocnistis atractias Meyrick, 1906
  Phyllocnistis atranota Meyrick, 1906
  Phyllocnistis aurilinea Zeller, 1877
  Phyllocnistis baccharidis E. M. Hering, 1958
  Phyllocnistis bourquini Pastrana, 1960
  Phyllocnistis breynilla Liu & Zeng, 1989
  Phyllocnistis canariensis M. Hering, 1927
  Phyllocnistis cassiella Ghesquière, 1940
  Phyllocnistis chlorantica Seksyaeva, 1992
  Phyllocnistis chrysophthalma Meyrick, 1915
  Phyllocnistis cirrhophanes Meyrick, 1915
  Phyllocnistis citrella Stainton, 1856
  Phyllocnistis citronympha Meyrick, 1926
  Phyllocnistis cornella Ermolaev, 1987
  Phyllocnistis diaugella Meyrick, 1880
  Phyllocnistis dichotoma Turner, 1947
  Phyllocnistis diplomochla Turner, 1923
  Phyllocnistis dorcas Meyrick, 1915
  Phyllocnistis drimiphaga Kawahara, Nishida & Davis, 2009
  Phyllocnistis echinodes Meyrick, 1926
  Phyllocnistis embeliella Liu & Zeng, 1989
  Phyllocnistis endoxa Meyrick, 1926
  Phyllocnistis ephimera Turner, 1926
  Phyllocnistis eurymochla Turner, 1923
  Phyllocnistis exaeta Meyrick, 1926
  Phyllocnistis exiguella van Deventer, 1904
  Phyllocnistis extrematrix Martynova, 1955
  Phyllocnistis finitima Braun, 1927
  Phyllocnistis habrochroa Meyrick, 1915
  Phyllocnistis hagnopa Meyrick, 1920
  Phyllocnistis hapalodes Meyrick, 1906
  Phyllocnistis helicodes Meyrick, 1916
  Phyllocnistis humiliella van Deventer, 1904
  Phyllocnistis hyperbolacma (Meyrick, 1931)
  Phyllocnistis hyperpersea Davis and Wagner, 2011
  Phyllocnistis insignis Frey & Boll, 1876
  Phyllocnistis intermediella Busck, 1900
  Phyllocnistis iodocella Meyrick, 1880
  Phyllocnistis labyrinthella (Bjerkander, 1790)
  Phyllocnistis leptomianta Turner, 1923
  Phyllocnistis liquidambarisella Chambers, 1875
  Phyllocnistis liriodendronella Clemens, 1863
  Phyllocnistis longipalpa Davis and Wagner, 2011
  Phyllocnistis loxosticha Bradley, 1965
  Phyllocnistis lucernifera Meyrick, 1935
  Phyllocnistis magnatella Zeller, 1873
  Phyllocnistis magnoliaeella Chambers, 1878
  Phyllocnistis maxberryi Kawahara, Nishida & Davis, 2009
  Phyllocnistis meliacella Becker, 1974
  Phyllocnistis micrographa Meyrick, 1916
  Phyllocnistis minimella van Deventer, 1904
  Phyllocnistis nepenthae M. Hering, 1931
  Phyllocnistis nymphidia Turner, 1947
  Phyllocnistis oxyopa Meyrick, 1918
  Phyllocnistis perseafolia Davis and Wagner, 2011
  Phyllocnistis pharetrucha Meyrick, 1921
  Phyllocnistis phrixopa Meyrick, 1926
  Phyllocnistis populiella Chambers, 1875
  Phyllocnistis psychina Meyrick, 1906
  Phyllocnistis puyehuensis Davis, 1994
  Phyllocnistis ramulicola Langmaid & Corley, 2007
  Phyllocnistis rotans Meyrick, 1915
  Phyllocnistis saligna (Zeller, 1839)
  Phyllocnistis sciophanta Meyrick, 1915
  Phyllocnistis selenopa Meyrick, 1915
  Phyllocnistis sexangula Meyrick, 1915
  Phyllocnistis signata Meyrick, 1915
  Phyllocnistis spatulata Meyrick, 1928
  Phyllocnistis stereograpta Meyrick, 1934
  Phyllocnistis subpersea Davis and Wagner, 2011
  Phyllocnistis symphanes Meyrick, 1926
  Phyllocnistis synglypta Meyrick, 1918
  Phyllocnistis tectonivora Meyrick, 1936
  Phyllocnistis temperatior Meyrick, 1936
  Phyllocnistis tethys Moreira & Vargas, 2012
  Phyllocnistis titania Meyrick, 1928
  Phyllocnistis toparcha Meyrick, 1918
  Phyllocnistis triortha Meyrick, 1906
  Phyllocnistis triploca Meyrick, 1928
  Phyllocnistis tropaeolicola Kawahara, Nishida & Davis, 2009
  Phyllocnistis unipunctella (Stephens, 1834)
  Phyllocnistis valentinensis M. Hering, 1936
  Phyllocnistis vitegenella Clemens, 1859
  Phyllocnistis vitella Ermolaev, 1987
  Phyllocnistis vitifoliella Chambers, 1871
  Phyllocnistis voutei M. Hering, 1932
  Phyllocnistis wampella Liu & Zeng, 1985
  Phyllocnistis wygodzinskyi E. M. Hering, 1958
  Phyllocnistis xenia M. Hering, 1936
caption: Phyllocnistis hyperpersea leaf mine
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