Caloptilia sapina

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Caloptilia sapina
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Caloptilia
Species:
C. sapina
Binomial name
Caloptilia sapina
(Vári, 1961) [1]
Synonyms
  • Sphyrophora sapinaVári, 1961

Caloptilia sapina is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Namibia and South Africa. [2]

The larvae feed on Sapium ellipticum . They mine the leaves of their host plant.

References

  1. Afrotropical Gracillariidae
  2. Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)