Caloptilia megalaurata

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Caloptilia megalaurata
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Caloptilia
Species:
C. megalaurata
Binomial name
Caloptilia megalaurata
Legrand, 1965 [1]

Caloptilia megalaurata is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from the Seychelles. [2]

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Caloptilia prosticta is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Madagascar, Nigeria, the Seychelles, South Africa and Sri Lanka.

Caloptilia titanitis is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. the species originates from South Africa.

Caloptilia wakayamensis is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Honshū island, Japan.

Caloptilia gloriosa is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Japan and the Russian Far East.

Caloptilia geminata is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Japan (Honshū).

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<i>Caloptilia cecidophora</i> Species of moth

Caloptilia cecidophora is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Japan and Taiwan.

Caloptilia isochrysa is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from the state of Meghalaya in India, the islands of Honshū, Kyūshū and Ryukyu in Japan and from Nepal.

Caloptilia ariana is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from India, Indonesia (Sulawesi), Japan, Malaysia (Sabah), Sri Lanka and Thailand.

Caloptilia kadsurae is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Japan.

<i>Caloptilia zachrysa</i> Species of moth

Caloptilia zachrysa is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from China, India, Japan, Korea, Sri Lanka and Taiwan.

Caloptilia alnivorella, the alder leafminer, is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. The species was first described by Vactor Tousey Chambers in 1875. It is known from the Russian Far East, Canada and the United States.

<i>Caloptilia violacella</i> Species of moth

Caloptilia violacella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Illinois, Missouri, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, New York and Texas in the United States.

<i>Caloptilia chrysitis</i> Species of moth

Caloptilia chrysitis is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is endemic to New Zealand. The larvae of this species mine and fold the leaves of species in the genera Weinmannia andElaeocarpus as well as Knightia excelsa, although only rarely for the later species.

Caloptilia fraxinella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Canada and the United States.

Caloptilia porphyretica is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from North Carolina and New Jersey in the United States.

References

  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Caloptilia megalaurata". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved 10 November 2012.
  2. "Caloptilia megalaurata Legrand, 1966". Global taxonomic database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera. Retrieved 10 November 2012.