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Chrysaster hagicola

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Species of moth

Chrysaster hagicola
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Chrysaster
Species: C. hagicola
Binomial name
Chrysaster hagicola
Kumata, 1961

Chrysaster hagicola is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Japan (Hokkaidō, Honshū, Shikoku and Kyūshū), Korea and the Russian Far East.

The wingspan is 4.5–5 mm.

The larvae feed on Lespedeza bicolor and Lespedeza cyrtobotrya. They mine the leaves of their host plant.

References

  1. Descriptions of a new genus and a new species of Gracillariidae from Japan (Lepidoptera)
  2. Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
Taxon identifiers
Chrysaster hagicola


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