Caloptilia iselaea

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Caloptilia iselaea
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Caloptilia
Species:
C. iselaea
Binomial name
Caloptilia iselaea
(Meyrick, 1914)
Synonyms
  • Caloptilia hapalocharis(Meyrick, 1935)

Caloptilia iselaea is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Brunei, the Cook Islands, Fiji, India, Indonesia (Java and Sulawesi), Malaysia (Pahang and Selangor), Sri Lanka and Thailand. [1]

The larvae feed on Spondias cytherea , Spondias mangifera and Spondias pinnata . They mine the leaves of their host plant.

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