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Gracillaria albicapitata

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Species of moth

Gracillaria albicapitata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Gracillaria
Species: G. albicapitata
Binomial name
Gracillaria albicapitata
Issiki, 1930
Synonyms
  • Caloptilia albicapitata
  • Lyoneta jezonella Matsumura, 1931
  • Gracillaria jezoniella (Kuznetzov & Baryshnikova, 1998)
  • Gracillaria syringifoliella (Ermolaev, 1981)

Gracillaria albicapitata is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from the islands of Hokkaidō and Honshū in Japan and the Russian Far East.

The wingspan is 9.8–12.5 mm.

The larvae feed on Fraxinus lanuginosa, Fraxinus mandshurica, Syringa amurensis, Syringa reticulata and Syringa vulgaris. They mine the leaves of their host plant.

References

  1. A taxonomic revision of the Gracillaria group occurring in Japan (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae)
  2. Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
Taxon identifiers
Gracillaria albicapitata


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