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Species of moth

Caloptilia elaeas
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Caloptilia
Species: C. elaeas
Binomial name
Caloptilia elaeas
(Meyrick, 1911)
Synonyms
  • Gracilaria elaeas Meyrick, 1911

Caloptilia elaeas is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from New Zealand.

The larvae of this species feed on Coriaria plumosa, mining and folding the leaves. It is likely that larvae of this species also feed on other Coriaria species.

References

  1. Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
  2. ^ Robert J. B. Hoare; Brian H Patrick; Thomas R. Buckley (22 July 2019). "A new leaf-mining moth from New Zealand, Sabulopteryx botanica sp. nov. (Lepidoptera, Gracillariidae, Gracillariinae), feeding on the rare endemic shrub Teucrium parvifolium (Lamiaceae), with a revised checklist of New Zealand Gracillariidae". ZooKeys. 865: 39–65. doi:10.3897/ZOOKEYS.865.34265. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 6663935. PMID 31379443. Wikidata Q70104394.

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