Phyllonorycter nipponicella (Issiki, 1930) (Fig. 5B) Material examined. Russia: PK, Gornotaezhnoe, MTS, 43.69N, 132.15E, 152 m alt., Quercus mongolica, 23.VII.2016, 1 female (reared from leaf mine), 58.1 / [8-2016-female] (Fig. 5B), deposited in SIF. Leaf mine. The mine is similar to Ph. nigristella. Trophic specialization. Monophagous on Quercus: Q. acutissima, Q. variabilis (Fagaceae) (Kumata 1963; Kumata et al. 1983; Fujihara et al. 2000); Q. mongolica (new record). Distribution. Russia: RFE—KK, PK, SO (Kuril Islands) (Baryshnikova 2016); Japan (Kumata 1963), Korea (Kumata et al. 1983).

Published as part of Kirichenko, Natalia, Triberti, Paolo, Akulov, Evgeniy, Ponomarenko, Margarita, Gorokhova, Svetlana, Sheiko, Viktor, Ohshima, Issei & Lopez-Vaamonde, Carlos, 2019, Exploring species diversity and host plant associations of leaf-mining micromoths (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) in the Russian Far East using DNA barcoding, pp. 1-55 in Zootaxa 4652 (1) on page 23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4652.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3363475