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Caloptilia ryukyuensis

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Caloptilia ryukyuensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Caloptilia
Species:
C. ryukyuensis
Binomial name
Caloptilia ryukyuensis
Kumata, 1966[1]

Caloptilia ryukyuensis is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known the Ryukyu Islands of Japan.[2]

The wingspan is about 12 mm.

The larvae feed on Glochidion hongkongensis and Glochidion zeylanicum. They probably mine the leaves of their host plant.

References

  1. ^ Descriptions of twenty new species of the genus Caloptilia Hübner from Japan including Ryukyu Islands (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae)
  2. ^ Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)


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