Caloptilia chalcodelta

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Caloptilia chalcodelta
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Caloptilia
Species:
C. chalcodelta
Binomial name
Caloptilia chalcodelta
(Meyrick, 1889) [1]
Synonyms [1]
  • Gracillaria chalcodeltaMeyrick, 1889

Caloptilia chalcodelta is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. [1] It is endemic to New Zealand. [2] The larvae of this species mine and fold leaves of species in the genus Nestegis . [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Caloptilia chalcodelta (Meyrick, 1889)". www.nzor.org.nz. Retrieved 2022-02-15.
  2. Edward Meyrick (May 1889). "Descriptions of New Zealand Micro-Lepidoptera". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 21: 154–188. ISSN   1176-6158. Wikidata   Q56065895.
  3. 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 (865): 39–65. doi: 10.3897/ZOOKEYS.865.34265 . ISSN   1313-2989. PMC   6663935 . PMID   31379443. Wikidata   Q70104394.